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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 897

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 897 for the week of June 15 – 21, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Developer Membership Board: process and membership changes
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • What are our partners building for device makers? Explore the highlights from Ubuntu IoT Day Singapore
  • Announcing the 10th Edition of UbuconLA: Cuenca, Ecuador
  • LoCo Events
  • Fixes available for local privilege escalation vulnerability in libblockdev using udisks
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
  • Sponsored
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

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  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • And many others

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