Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 893

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 893 for the week of May 18 – 24, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

• Sunsetting Launchpad’s mailing lists
• Installing chrony by default, to enable Network Time Security (NTS)
• Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board restaffing
• Welcome New Members and Developers
• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• Rocks Public Journal 2025-05-19
• LXD: Weekly news #395
• Other Meeting Reports
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Ubuntu Nepal + GNOME Nepal, UbuCon Asia 2025 going super strong!
• Korean LoCo Tea Party (May 17)
• LoCo Events
• Announcing 6.17 Kernel for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
• Plasma 6.4 Beta1 available for testing
Sponsored
• KDE Application Snaps 25.04.1 with Major Bug Fix!
• Ubuntu Cloud News
• Canonical News
• In the Blogosphere
• Featured Audio and Video
• Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
• And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

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

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