UWN Issue 949 June 14-20 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 949 for the week of June 14 - 20, 2026.

In this Issue

  • Beyond Mythos: responding to a new threat landscape
  • Julian Andres Klode: Stepping down from the DMB
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2026-06-16
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Hello from the new Ubuntu-MATE maintainers team
  • Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
  • Anbox Cloud 1.30.0 is released
  • Help us design the next GitHub Actions for Rockcraft
  • Autopkgtest: a postmortem and prebirthem
  • Template: Streamlining open source design contributions
  • Launchpad security advisory: Fix applied for unsafe tar file extraction vulnerability
  • Other Community News
  • What Say You
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Beyond Mythos: responding to a new threat landscape

Lech Sandecki reminds us of Canonical’s security philosophy, before moving to the fact that AI has changed vulnerability discovery volume and speed. This post gives us a breakdown on how the modern AI landscape has transformed Canonical’s Security team’s methods. This change is explained, and includes an example to help us better understand it, with links to Ubuntu’s Security Disclosure Policy, and more.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/responding-to-a-new-threat-landscape

Julian Andres Klode: Stepping down from the DMB

Julian Andres Klode gives (formal) notice of intent to let his DMB membership board status expire, with details on why given in this post.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2026-June/003052.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 136705 (-12)
  • Critical: 305 (+2)
  • Unconfirmed: 72605 (+12)

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translations

  • Swedish: 100.00% (0/1453)
  • Albanian: 98.86% (4000/7)
  • Ukrainian: 89.37% (37341/1749)
  • German: 87.16% (45072/217)
  • French: 85.77% (49953/6385)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

Find more support at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/support-and-help/306

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

Ask (and answer!) questions at: https://askubuntu.com/

Meeting Reports

Rocks Public Journal; 2026-06-16

For those who couldn’t attend the Ubuntu Summit 26, check out @lczyk’s talk on Minimal Rust rocks. Also, the Ubuntu 26.10 base rock (devel) is now available (Docker Hub and ECR).

Other Meeting Reports

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Times shown are UTC unless otherwise specified. For more details and further dates please visit: https://ubuntu.com/community | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/upcoming-events

Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the respective Circles!/LoCo Team calendar to browse upcoming events.

Please also see:

The Hub

Hello from the new Ubuntu-MATE maintainers team

Sui Vue (SV) reminds us of the changing of the team for Ubuntu MATE developers, and introduces us to the new team, being : Victor Kareh (@vkareh), Johannes Unruh (@mbkma), Tomasz Jeruzalski (@tomekdev), and themself (@suivue) with some details. We’re told the current state, future plans and a general direction that the team is moving to, which includes a success already (26.10 alpha ISOs are out). If we’d like to help out and join them, we’re told how we can do this.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/hello-from-the-new-ubuntu-mate-maintainers-team/84246

Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop

Jean Baptiste Lallement writes that “Speech To Text is an important accessibility feature” and then announces the Project Myna. We’re told this is an initiative to bring speech to text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, and what we should see when we’re using Ubuntu 26.10 in a few months. Privacy, architecture, and more are discussed, with feedback and contributors welcome, with a link to the project repository provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-myna-speech-to-text-for-ubuntu-desktop/84251

Anbox Cloud 1.30.0 is released

Bertrand Boisseau tells us about the release of Anbox Cloud 1.30.0. We’re told the “headline feature is support for virtualized Android”, and that “Anbox Cloud can now run Android inside a Cuttlefish virtual machine within the LXD instance”, and more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/anbox-cloud-1-30-0-is-released/84250

Help us design the next GitHub Actions for Rockcraft

Dmitry Malykhanov tells us the Starcraft team is hoping to improve automation and CI/CD workflow crafting, and thus is seeking details of how we’re using GitHub actions. We can provide this by filling in a ‘quick’ survey and provide our insights.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/help-us-design-the-next-github-actions-for-rockcraft/84258

Autopkgtest: a postmortem and prebirthem

Ural Tunaboyu tells us of some recent issues in the autopkgtest infrastructure. He walks us through the fix and notes other improvements, which will ‘ship soon’. We’re walked through recent events, some discoveries, debugging and the now “dramatically increased reliability of the system we see today”. We’re briefly walked through new improvements and the future, and told we’ll be updated when there is more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/autopkgtest-a-postmortem-and-prebirthem/84338

The Planet

Template: Streamlining open source design contributions

Nina Rojc talks about a difficulty between designers and maintainers in regards to open source projects, with this post attempting to ‘bridge the gap’ with a ‘template Design Contribution Project Brief’ (links provided). We’re walked through what we’ll find in this contributions brief, why we should use it and how it can benefit both, and more.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/template-streamlining-open-source-design-contributions

Launchpad security advisory: Fix applied for unsafe tar file extraction vulnerability

In exemplifying “ongoing commitment to transparency and security” Launchpad discloses a rapid resolution for a vulnerability discovered by splitline (_splitline_) and the DEVCORE Research Team. The fault was discovered in the tar files processing, and was fixed shortly after the report. There is no known malicious exploitation and “no user action is required”.

https://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-security-advisory-fix-applied-for-unsafe-tar-file-extraction-vulnerability

Other Community News

Important Policy Update Regarding Beta and Final Releases for Ubuntu Flavors

Oliver Reiche of the Ubuntu Release team makes it clear to flavors, that they won’t be “considered for an official release” if they miss the beta release. Mention is made of Ubuntu-Kylin which was granted a ‘rare exception’ for resolute (26.04), with our being told this was a ‘one-time’ occurrence with no further exceptions being allowed. Flavor teams are appreciated, with members encouraged to reach out (on matrix) if there are questions or any blockers.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2026-June/006814.html

What Say You

Genuinely Impressed

“It’s been roughly a week or so since testing out ubuntu on my #thinkpad T480s. I’m genuinely impressed how painless everything has been (connecting displays, driver support, wifi etc). I know Ubuntu is picked on quite a bit, but I think it is one of the best free/open ‘starter’ operating systems to introduce to newbies.” - Bradley Taunt

https://ubuntu.social/@ubuntublog/116765688036428466

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu Desktop 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Daily Builds Now Available for Download

Marcus Nestor tells us daily build ISO images are available for x86_64 (amd64), AArch64 (arm64), and Risc-V (riscv64). He mentions that he considers the ‘stonking stingray’ development cycle as being ‘strange until now’, before noting it’s “all good now”. We’re given brief details on how we can test images, including details on the required RISC-V bootloader, what we can expect when Ubuntu 26.10 releases, and more.

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-desktop-26-10-stonking-stingray-daily-builds-now-available-for-download

Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2

Michael Larabel writes about what we’ll see in Linux 7.2 in regards to BTRFS. We were reminded of some recent changes in prior kernel releases where BTRFS features were ‘experimental’, with that label now gone and thus defaults changed. Michael covers a number of new features, and provides us with a link to the pull request mailing list by David Sterba if we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Btrfs

NVIDIA 595.84 Linux Driver Improves Support for 007 First Light and Other Games

Marcus Nestor tells us of the release of NVIDIA’s 595.84 graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We’re told it fixes some bugs and regressions, additionally we are given some details of hangs, black screens and more, which are addressed in specific games. A link to the release notes is provided, as well as a link so we can download it now.

https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-595-84-linux-driver-improves-support-for-007-first-light-and-other-games

Featured Audio and Video

Portugal Podcast: Episode 382 - MEGA EPISODÃO DE DOMINGÃO

“Sacrifícios humanos, raposas com fibra, IA, aranhas australianas, Meshtastic, torradeiras de discos, Louis Rossman, futebol, Firefox, Santo António, Snaps e morcela de pinguim. O que têm todas estas coisas em comum? Estão no MAIOR EPISÓDIO DE SEMPRE (no meio há pausa para xixi), com 3 horas de conteúdo espraiado por toda a espécie de temas: Home Assistant em museus e ar condicionado com infravermelhos, ressurreição do Ubuntu Mate, flatpakofobia, Federação das Républicas Linuxeiras, novidades do Ubuntu desktop e Ubuntu Touch, insultos gratuitos a comunidades de Arch, Firefox, permissões picuinhas para Snaps, ferramentas de IA e até malha e lavores. Querem mais coisas? Comprem mais coisas! (O IBAN para doações está a passar em baixo do ecrã).”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e382/

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.10, and 26.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

End of standard support: April 2029

Ubuntu 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 9, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2031

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