UWN Issue 964 September 27-October 3, 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 964 for the week of September 27 - October 3, 2026.

In this Issue

  • Upgrades from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS now enabled
  • Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) Beta released
  • 2026 Ubuntu Community Council: AMA is now open
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • Event report: UbuCon Asia X COSCUP 2026 - Organizing a joint event with the largest FOSS gathering in Taiwan
  • [Event Report] UbuConLa 2026 - Santiago, Chile
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Ubuntu Community Discourse
  • We Put Our Websites on a Token Diet — Our Homepage Lost 98% of Its Weight
  • Ubuntu Concept 26.10 Snapdragon Edition
  • Ubuntu Server Gazette – Issue 19: Automatic Debian merges with git ubuntu deltarebase
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Upgrades from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS now enabled

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team announces the opening of the upgrade path for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. We’re told briefly how to do this, with links given for more detailed instructions if required, and links for support if users need that too.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/upgrades-from-ubuntu-24-04-lts-to-ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-now-enabled/88502

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) Beta released

Utkarsh Gupta again on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team announces the Beta release of Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop, Server, WSL, Cloud and flavors. We’re given some details including the flavors involved, and links are provided for more details including upgrade instructions. Links to download the various images are also included.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray-beta-released/88662

Interested in the flavors? Release announcements as follows:

A sample of the media attention:

2026 Ubuntu Community Council: AMA is now open

Merlijn Sebrechts makes the declaration “the AMA is now open” for Ubuntu Members to query the candidates. We are advised the AMA will be moderated to ensure that remarks are pertinent. Individual concerns “should be sent to the Community Council instead”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-nominations-2026-ubuntu-community-council/87356/26

Welcome New Members and Developers

Congratulations Seyeong!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 137102 (+77)
  • Critical: 295 (-2)
  • Unconfirmed: 73080 (+68)

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

Translations

  • Swedish: 99.99% (20/2117)
  • Albanian: 97.49% (9562/0)
  • Ukrainian: 89.10% (41569/1101)
  • German: 87.01% (49508/341)
  • French: 85.93% (53638/6608)

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 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

Event report: UbuCon Asia X COSCUP 2026 - Organizing a joint event with the largest FOSS gathering in Taiwan

Youngbin Han gives us an event report for UbuCon Asia X COSUP 2026. With a focus on organizing the event Youngbin tells us why it was a joint event, and the work on aligning the two different conferences. We’re then told of the setup or ‘day before the event’, the actual event including some of the talks, people, and more. The city tour is covered in this extensive report, and we’re shown a copious quantity of photos, with many people thanked.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/event-report-ubucon-asia-x-coscup-2026-organizing-a-joint-event-with-the-largest-foss-gathering-in-taiwan/88453/

[Event Report] UbuConLa 2026 - Santiago, Chile

Samira relates the UbuCon Latinoamérica 2026 event, held September 29 and 30, through many pictures. Samira notes “the regional meeting of the Ubuntu and free software community” included workshops, talks, and practical exercises, and was attended people from ten countries. In the foundational meeting student volunteers experienced their first direct contact. Links are provided for additional detail with thanks given to many.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubunconla-2026-santiago-de-chile/88764/

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:

Ubuntu Community Discourse

We Put Our Websites on a Token Diet — Our Homepage Lost 98% of Its Weight

Benjamin Oni starts with 91,000 as to how many ‘tokens’ existed in the canonical.com homepage. Benjamin outlines why this could matter and what they do. In order to reduce this ‘cost’ a markdown version of the canonical.com and ubuntu.com pages was produced (available by query parameter), with this post telling us how this was achieved. Benjamin also discusses the stripping some tools provide but highlights potential risks with this. We’re also shown how we can use this, and how it works. We’re invited to try it, and report if we have ‘odd output’, or if we just use markdown pages for something. A link to the code is provided (via GitHub).

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/we-put-our-websites-on-a-token-diet-our-homepage-lost-98-of-its-weight/88512/

Ubuntu Concept 26.10 Snapdragon Edition

Tobias Heider reminds us of the prior Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon enablement work, noting it’s been awhile since the last update; new Snapdragon X2 hardware has since been released. This post announces the “latest iteration of our experimental Ubuntu Concept ISO including initial enablement for Snapdragon X2 machines”. We’re told it includes other improvements and fixes found in the Linux 7.3 kernel. A list of some devices it’ll work on is provided, along with links for more details, or to download it for trial. Tobias thanks the open source community, Lenovo, HP, Qualcomm and Dell who provided feedback and hardware.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-26-10-snapdragon-edition/88518

Ubuntu Server Gazette – Issue 19: Automatic Debian merges with ‘git ubuntu deltarebase’

Jonas Jelten reminds us Ubuntu is ‘built on Debian’, of the Ubuntu delta and need to merge code so as to keep that delta. Jonas highlights that git merge isn’t the same thing, and covers the ‘git ubuntu deltarebase’ command here. We’re reminded of the old method and the current method, before moving to ‘the new way’. This text is explanatory and does give sample commands, covering details of what the ‘agent’ does (the boring bits), and that it never touches our checkout. We’re also given a list of reference links if we need more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-server-gazette-issue-19-automatic-debian-merges-with-git-ubuntu-deltarebase/88703/

Other Community News

Budgie 10.10.3 Desktop Environment Introduces Free Placement of Desktop Icons

Marcus Nestor tells us of the Budgie 10.10.3 release, reminding us Budgie 10.10 is Wayland only too. Marcus covers some of the new features we’ll find in this release, and mentions some fixed bugs. We’re given links to the release announcement and to the project’s GitHub.

https://9to5linux.com/budgie-10-10-3-desktop-environment-introduces-free-placement-of-desktop-icons

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

New Ubuntu Concept ISO For Snapdragon Laptops Brings First X2 Laptop Support

Michael Larabel writes about Canonical releasing a new Ubuntu build for Qualcomm Snapdragon X series laptops. We’re told of “improved Snapdragon X1 laptop support as well as the initial Snapdragon X2 laptop support”, that the build has the Linux 7.3 kernel & more of what we’ll find in the Ubuntu Concept 26.10 Snapdragon Edition. Michael provides a number of links should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Snapdragon-Concept

Ubuntu Working On SHA3 For Debian’s APT For If/When SHA2 Is Broken

Michael Larabel alerts us of Canonical’s preemptive formation of SHA3-256 and SHA3-384 support. In the event that sha2 gets broken, provision will be in place for better security. A link to the merge request is provided.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-SHA3-For-Debian-APT

In Other News

Canonical and Huawei’s Ubuntu/Kunpeng Collaboration

Sam Fenwick informs us of Canonical and Huawei’s partnership. We’re given details of what the linking of the open source Ubuntu operating system and Huawei’s Kunpeng open source computing platform could achieve. Many details come from Ivan Ramos Garza’s (VP at Canonical) speech at Huawei Connect’s Kunpeng Computing Industry Summit 2026. When we’ll see an optimized Ubuntu for Kunpeng compute we don’t yet know, but its taking form.

https://aimagazine.com/news/canonical-and-huaweis-ubuntu-kunpeng-collaboration

Featured Audio and Video

Jon Seager: Keynote - Rust Adoption at Scale With Ubuntu

“When Ubuntu 25.10 shipped with Rust-based rewrites of core system packages like coreutils and sudo, it marked the first milestone toward making memory-safe utilities the default in Ubuntu. In this talk, Jon Seager charts the journey behind that decision, including the motivation, tradeoffs and surprises along the way. Canonical has now shipped Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, the first long term support release to feature these utilities with our trademark 15-year support and security maintenance. Also covered is the upki project, a collaboration between Canonical and the Rustls project, all the ways you can develop with Rust on Ubuntu, and our plans for the future.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-_jLdNrufQ

Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 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 26.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2031

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