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UWN Issue 965 October 4-10 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 965 for the week of October 4 - 10, 2026.

In this Issue

  • Second Stonking Stingray test rebuild
  • DDoS on Canonical and Ubuntu websites
  • Call for testing: RCs of 26.10 Release are ready!
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • Ubuntu Community Discourse
  • Multipass 1.17 release candidate
  • Canceled Kernel Releases for the 2026.08.31 SRU Cycle
  • Announcing Ubuntu desktop images for RISC-V
  • What’s new in security for Ubuntu 26.10?
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Security and Updates for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Second Stonking Stingray test rebuild

Graham Inggs tells us the “second test rebuild of Stonking Stingray was started on October 2”. Most architectures and components have already completed for main, excluding riscv64 and some still running for universe and multiverse repositories. Graham thanks CPC and Launchpad teams for preparing updated ‘buildd’ chroots for this build. We’re given links to see results, and asked to help fix build failures.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-October/043663.html

DDoS on Canonical and Ubuntu websites

Javier Arregui reports that Canonical websites are under sustained distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), and reports the team is working “diligently to resolve the incident”. A link to the status page is provided, and we are warned some services may be intermittent at times. This post has received an update (via reply) telling us most services are back up, but restoration continues for some affected services.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ddos-on-canonical-and-ubuntu-websites/89064

Call for testing: RCs of 26.10 Release are ready!

Utkarsh Gupta, on behalf of the Release team, announces the “the first set of initial release candidate images for the 26.10 release is now available on Test Observer”. We are told RISC-V images will soon be available. Test your favorite flavor, and report test results on the Test Observer.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-October/043665.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 137253 (+151)
  • Critical: 296 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 73190 (+110)

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% (0/3723)
  • Albanian: 97.83% (8288/0)
  • Ukrainian: 89.09% (41582/1100)
  • German: 87.01% (49512/365)
  • French: 85.96% (53505/6551)

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) 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

Multipass 1.17 release candidate

Christoph Niederberger tells us the Multipass 1.17.0 Release Candidate is ready for testing, and we’re invited to test it. We’re given details, including the snap in the beta channel, Windows and macOS packages available for GitHub, and told where to report any issues.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/multipass-1-17-release-candidate/88834

Canceled Kernel Releases for the 2026.08.31 SRU Cycle

Kleber Souza reminds us of the 2-week SRU cycle for the Ubuntu Kernel team and the new rules; as a result of these ‘stricter’ rules we’re told of some kernel changes that have been canceled in the 2026.08.31 SRU cycle. A table is provided showing: SRU cycle, kernels, package types, versions, and cancellation reason.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/canceled-kernel-releases-for-the-2026-08-31-sru-cycle/88894

Announcing Ubuntu desktop images for RISC-V

Valentin Haudiquet writes about Desktop images coming to Ubuntu 26.10 for RISC-V. We’re told the images are available for testing, and also told of a Xubuntu Minimal image being available too. Valentin then moves to official support for SpacemiT K3 which will come with Ubuntu 26.10, and gives us a link to view the documentation. We’re given some clues on trying these images, and some technical details on how it was achieved and the work done. We’re asked to give it a try, with thanks given to a number of people who helped.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-ubuntu-desktop-images-for-risc-v/89110

The Planet

What’s new in security for Ubuntu 26.10?

Ijlal Loutfi reminds us that AI tools are “accelerating vulnerability discovery” and as such patching “faster is essential”. Ubuntu 26.10 will continue the work in prior Ubuntu releases to reduce “code exposed to attack” with us given some details of this, using Myna as an example. This blog outlines the changes made in Ubuntu 26.10 regarding security in some detail, starting with the Secure Boot path, TPM-backed encryption, and more. This is a detailed post, with many links provided should we need more. Along with a reminder of the interim releases in an LTS cycle, we’re asked to test Ubuntu 26.10 with our workloads, and report what we find, as reports will help influence development of Ubuntu 28.04 LTS.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-26-10-security

Canonical News

In the Blogosphere

Multiple Security Issues Patched in XOrg Server 21.1.25 and Xwayland 24.1.14

Marcus Nestor tells us of the release of XOrg Server 21.1.25 and Xwayland 24.1.14 which resolve some security vulnerabilities. We’re given details of the problems and CVEs resolved, of potential problems of heap corruption, denial of service & more that are mitigated with this update. A link to the XOrg Security Advisory is also included.

https://9to5linux.com/multiple-security-issues-patched-in-xorg-server-21-1-25-and-xwayland-24-1-14

Ubuntu Summit for Ubuntu 26.10 Takes Place on November 12-13, 2026

Marcus Nestor gives us details of the Ubuntu Summit; which will take place on November 12-13 2026. We’re reminded of the coming Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release, before giving us some details of the Ubuntu Summit, some links, and being told how to register via Ubuntu’s Discourse.

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-summit-for-ubuntu-26-10-takes-place-on-november-12-13-2026

NVIDIA 615 Driver is Finally Available in Official Ubuntu Repository

Ji m reports that the NVIDIA 615.71.09 driver can be found in Ubuntu repositories for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. We’re given details of the improvements in this newer driver, and told how we can install it if we’re using a Ubuntu system.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/nvidia-615-available-ubuntu-repository/

Featured Audio and Video

Portugal Podcast: Episode 388 - 'Tá Toda Confinada

“O Diogo regressou da Festa do Software Livre de barriga cheia com frango assado e excelentes comunicações e dá-nos um cheirinho do que viu. Perorámos muito sobre as novidades do Firefox, alterações do seu design, avanços e recuos; o Diogo continua a fazer TOKENMAXXING À BRUTA para levar a Anthropic à falência e até o Miguel já foi estender a mão ao Deepseek para lhe desligar o portátil. Andámos a brincar com o fogo a meter Qwen 3 e Ollama com Gemma no computador; o Diogo está enfiado num labirinto (que ele próprio criou) numa app de navegação e ainda insultámos a Trofa, Corroios, Coimbra e muitas outras comunidades humanas - excepto São Mamede de Infesta, que é a sede do LCD Porto e por isso é muito fixe.”

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e388/

Destination Linux: episode 486 - Monica Ayhens‑Madon Talks Thundermail, Ubuntu MATE & Open‑Source Community Power

“Jill hosts an extended and heartfelt conversation with Monica Ayhens‑Madon, one of the most passionate open‑source community advocates in the Linux world. Monica shares her journey from Canonical’s Community Team to Ubuntu MATE, her time on the Ubuntu Community Council, and her current role helping shape the future of Thunderbird.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH1ry7JSHVE

Security and Updates for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

Maintenance Activity: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jammy-changes/2026-October/

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

Maintenance Activity: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/noble-changes/2026-October/

End of standard support: April 2029

Ubuntu 26.04 Updates

Maintenance Activity: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/resolute-changes/2026-October/

End of Standard Support: April 2031

[The Release Update Listings] have become unwieldy so we’re providing links.

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