UWN Issue 947 May 31 - June 6, 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 947 for the week of May 31 - June 6, 2026.

In this Issue

  • Ubuntu Summit 26.04: Personal Highlights
  • Ubuntu Summit 26.04: Reviews
  • Lubuntu Council Elections 2026
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • [Call for Abstracts] UbuCon India 2026
  • [Call for Abstracts] Opportunity Open Source Conference 4.0 in the IIIT Allahabad
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Canonical’s Steam Snap is now stable on Arm64
  • Ubuntu Desktop 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Roadmap: Building toward Ubuntu 28.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • 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

Ubuntu Summit 26.04: Personal Highlights

Jon Seager tells us he attended the Ubuntu Summit 26.04, and in this post provides us with his “favorite moments”. We’ve given numerous links for more details, told of some talks such as Introducing Workshop (we’re invited to have a play), Building the ‘Internet Computer’, bootc for Ubuntu hosts, and more. This is a rather detailed post covering some talks well, honorable mentions of others, before giving us a conclusion and mention of the scheduled Ubuntu Summit 26.10.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-summit-26-04-personal-highlights/83660

Ubuntu Summit 26.04: Reviews

Sreyashi Bhattacharya [techgenyz] in her article focuses somewhat on AI Ecosystem expansion, and provides photos with decent coverage of the Ubuntu Summit 26.04. Steven Vaughan-Nichols [zdnet] also focused on the ‘AI agentic era’ that Ubuntu is moving towards with a summary of many parts of the Ubuntu Summit 26.04, some photos, before moving to Jon Seager’s talk, and more. Joey Sneddon [omgubuntu] in his take of the Ubuntu Summit 26.04 talks most about the AI-powered voice input; or the same detail in end-user understandable terms.

Lubuntu Council Elections 2026

Aaron Rainbolt, on behalf of the Lubuntu Council, announces the 2026 Lubuntu election cycle. We’re reminded what the Lubuntu Council is, the requirements of its members, before moving to how to apply to be on the Lubuntu Council. We’re also given the timeline for this election (and terms), and given a link to send an email to the current Lubuntu Council with any questions.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lubuntu-council-elections-2026/83776

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 136567 (+330)
  • Critical: 303 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 72515 (+298)

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% (0/1370)
  • Albanian: 98.86% (4000/1)
  • Ukrainian: 89.36% (37362/1705)
  • German: 87.16% (45073/251)
  • French: 85.77% (49961/6311)

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/

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) News

[Call for Abstracts] UbuCon India 2026

This Call for Abstracts for UbuCon India 2026 gives details of the UbuCon India 2026 event, the tracks at the event, before providing a link for new abstracts to be submitted.

https://events.canonical.com/event/157/abstracts/

[Call for Abstracts] Opportunity Open Source Conference 4.0 in the IIIT Allahabad

This post reminds us of what we can accomplish with free and open-source software, and invites readers to come along to the Opportunity Open Source Conference 4.0 in the IIIT Allahabad. We’re given details of some of the topics we’ll learn about in talks, panels, Q&A, and more. We are given links to prior events should we want to learn more, and dates of this three day event. A link to submit a new abstract is also included.

https://events.canonical.com/event/154/

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

Canonical’s Steam Snap is now stable on Arm64

Mitchell Augustin reminds us of the release of the Steam Snap for ARM64, and gives us a “non-exhaustive list of platforms for which we’ve focused our testing and enablement efforts”. We’re given details of the versions of Steam Snap (edge, candidate, stable) that will be provided in the future, and a brief coverage of the FEX’s configuration options which are user-adjustable. We’re reminded this Steam Snap is not Valve-supported, but they and FEX developers are thanked for their ‘incredible work’. If we encounter problems; we’re told where we can report them, too.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/canonical-s-steam-snap-is-now-stable-on-arm64/83664

Ubuntu Desktop 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Roadmap: Building toward Ubuntu 28.04 LTS

Jean Baptiste Lallement reminds us of the development cycle of Ubuntu Desktop LTS releases, both interim and the final LTS in the cycle. We’re given some details of what we’ll see in Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop; both what we’ll interact with and what will be running under the surface when we’re using the release later this year. We’re told of some features that are being improved, completed and more, including a ‘Context-Aware Desktop’. This is a lengthy post including: some key dates for Ubuntu 26.10 that ends with a notification that feedback and contributions are welcome.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-26-10-stonking-stingray-roadmap-building-toward-ubuntu-28-04-lts/83751

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code

Michael Larabel tells us that Canonical has released Mir 2.27, whilst reminding us what it is. We’re told Mir now supports EGL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL_WL which is needed for some devices running libhybris-based in the EGL driver stack. We’re told there are also some wayland-rs changes, a new logging API, and WLCS keyboard support. We’re told of some bug fixes, and given a link to the GitHub page.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.27-Released

KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland

Michael Larabel informs us that 95% of Plasma 6.6 users are using Wayland, and that KDE developers are still planning on dropping X11 support for Plasma 6.8. We’re told of a blog post from KDE developer David Edmundson on Plasma 6.7, which is the last X11 supported release, and that XWayland code will remain in 6.8 with only X11 specific code to be removed. A link to David’s post is provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-Wayland-Ex-X11

Widely-Used libinput Updated Due To Arbitrary Root Code Execution

Michael Larabel writes about a new release of libinput 1.31.2 which includes a required security fix. We’re given a link and details from Peter Hutterer, which include some details of the flaw discovered by Csome that is now fixed.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/libinput-1.31.2-Security-Fix

GNOME 50.2 Adds Rate Control to the VA-API H.264 Screencast Pipelines

Marcus Nestor blogs about the release of GNOME 50.2, giving us details of the improvements in the various components, and a link to the release announcement. We’re also told of the release of GNOME 49.7 with fixes to that older GNOME desktop.

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-2-adds-rate-control-to-the-va-api-h-264-screencast-pipelines

Featured Audio and Video

Mir Office Hours 29th April 2026

Agenda: General updates, Documentation migration, Mir 2.26 and 2.27, UBPorts updates, and Discussion on mode switching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kvmBCmzlWY | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-office-hours-2026-04-29-15-15utc/80973

Portugal Podcast: Episode 381 - Na estrada, com Tiago Carreira

“Lembram-se daquela série do Seinfeld, «Comedians in cars getting coffee»? Agora imaginem algo parecido, mas com dois «geeks» do Software Livre; Diogo Constantino (Ubuntu-pt) e Tiago Carreira (ANSOL), que percorrem o país de lés a lés para ir a todas as conferências, encontros e espaços das comunidades tecnológicas (JNation, Wikicon, ODET, FTPS, Centros Linux espalhados pelo país…). Entre viagens, os nossos anfitriões descrevem os eventos e tecem considerações várias sobre o que viram e ouviram. Este episódio teve uma pegada de carbono mais pequena, porque o carro era híbrido. Mas nem imaginam a quantidade de lítio que foi minerado para isto.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e381/

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 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2031

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