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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 874

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 874 for the week of January 5 – 11, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • First Plucky Puffin test rebuild
  • Phased updater and weekends
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-01-10
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • LoCo Events
  • Ubuntu Studio: 24.04 LTS Backports Megathread
  • Ubuntu Studio: Support and Help Updates
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and 24.10
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) – Rocks
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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