The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter

UWN Issue 946 May 24-30 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 946 for the week of May 24 - 30, 2026.

In this Issue

Ubuntu Summit 26.04
Stonking Snapshot 1 released
Ubuntu Stats
Hot in Support
Other Meeting Reports
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
UbuCon Korea 2026: Call for proposals
[Event Report] UbuConKenya2026
Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
Introducing Workshop: launch sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command
Announcing 7.2 Kernel for Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray
Ubuntu Cloud News
Canonical News
In the Blogosphere
Other Articles of Interest
And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu Summit 26.04

Mauro Gaspari posted this as the Ubuntu Summit 26.04 started, with it running on May 27-28 2026. It includes information and links to the timetable and other useful pages.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-26-04-ready-set-summit/83018

If you missed the Ubuntu Summit 26.04, the keynote and Day 1 & 2, plus CC Music stream are listed here:

Welcome Keynote Ubuntu Summit 26.04 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJo8bOT7Lk
Ubuntu Summit Day 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ysMzeqook
Ubuntu Summit Day 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTcGTPPV_Bc
CCMUSIC Ubuntu Companion stream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clmVAGS0ipI

In the following days, expect to see individual sessions uploaded to the Canonical Ubuntu YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@ubuntuos

Utkarsh Gupta, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the “first successful publication of the Stonking Stingray monthly snapshot”. We’re given some example links to ISOs, told a few images are missing but will be available with Snapshot 2. A link to the current Ubuntu 26.10 Release notes is provided, as well, we are reminded they’re for testing and not production usage.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/stonking-snapshot-1-released/83551

Stonking Snapshot 1 released - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-May/043572.html
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Snapshot-1
Ubuntu 26.10 daily builds now available to download - https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-26-10-daily-builds

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

Open: 136237 (+90)
Critical: 302 (0)
Unconfirmed: 72217 (+30)

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% (0/1374)
Albanian: 98.86% (4000/0)
Ukrainian: 89.36% (37362/1703)
German: 87.16% (45073/247)
French: 85.77% (49961/6414)

Hot in Support

Ubuntu Community Discourse Trending Top 5 Threads

Phased updates and security updates - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/phased-updates-and-security-updates/82617
Partial Upgrading? - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/partial-upgrading/82837
Alternative Pastebin Options - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/alternative-pastebin-options/82842
Graphics error with Blender 3.6 and OpenGL 3.3 - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/graphics-error-with-blender-3-6-and-opengl-3-3/83125
Where are the Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 ISO images? - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/where-are-the-26-10-amd64-iso-images/83413

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

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

How to set a variable from a multiline file in GitHub - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567212/how-to-set-a-variable-from-a-multiline-file-in-github
ls -l prints extra spaces after upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567218/ls-l-prints-extra-spaces-after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-26-04-lts
Why does the command chmod 0775 not remove setgid - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567283/why-does-the-command-chmod-0775-not-remove-setgid
AUCTeX SyncTeX no longer works with Evince after Ubuntu 26.04 upgrade - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567235/auctex-synctex-no-longer-works-with-evince-after-ubuntu-26-04-upgrade
Why is plocate/locate very slow on WSL2 (minutes per query)? - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1567329/why-is-plocate-locate-very-slow-on-wsl2-minutes-per-query

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

Other Meeting Reports

[daily] Server Triage Reports - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/project/server/17
Foundations Team Updates - 2026-05-28 - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/foundations-team-updates-2026-05-28/83468
+1 Maintenance report from 25 May to 29 May - <+1 Maintenance report from 25 May to 29 May
Rust on Ubuntu - June 2026 - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rust-on-ubuntu-june-2026/83556

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Ubuntu HPC weekly community call: Wednesday, 3 June, 16:30 - 17:00 - https://meet.jit.si/Ubuntu-HPC | https://matrix.to/#/#hpc:ubuntu.com
Starcraft Clinics (1st option): Thursday 4 June, 18:00 - 19:00 - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/starcraft-clinics-1st-option/43649 | < https://meet.google.com/ixc-nucm-hjn
Lubuntu Weekly Standup: Thursday 4 June, 9:00 - 10:00 PM - https://matrix.to/#/#lubuntu-devel:ubuntu.com | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lubuntu-weekly-standup/43699
Ubuntu 26.04 installation and support day: Carrer de Gràcia 190, Barcelona; Saturday, 6 June 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/jornada-dinstal-lacio-i-suport-resolute-racoon-barcelona-ubuntu-26-04/82545
Mir Office Hours: Wed, 6 June, 14:15 - 15:00 - https://meet.google.com/scw-rpvd-ewy | https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mir-office-hours-2026-06-03-15-15utc/83611

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

UbuCon Korea 2026: Call for proposals

This is a Call for Proposals for UbuCon Korea 2026, and is in Korean. The post includes many details including submission deadline (June 5), instructions on making submissions, a link to ‘submit new abstract’, and more’.

https://events.canonical.com/event/153/abstracts/

[Event Report] UbuConKenya2026

Doreen Peace Nangira Wanyama gives us an event report on UbuConKenya 2026, which is also the “first-ever UbuCon Kenya”. The report tells us how the conference was started, after a DjangoCon/UbuCon Africa 2025 inspiration, and the ‘tough’ slog to get it going in only four months. We’re shown photos, and given reports on the two days, with links so we can learn more.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuconkenya2026/83399

Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events

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

Arizona LoCo: Virtual Tempe Ubuntu Hour on line; 04 June, 1900 - 2000 - BigBlue Button, https://bbb.azloco.net
Arizona LoCo: Virtual Installfest/Linux Workshop on line; 06 June, 1000-1600 - Big Blue Button, https://bbb.azloco.net (co-hosted with the Phoenix Linux User Group)
Arizona LoCo: AZLOCO Team Meeting on IRC.libera.chat; 07 June, 2100-2130 - IRC channel ubuntu.us.az
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts: Linux Help Session (Online) - Jitsi; 7 June, 2 PM CT - https://www.heylo.com/event/5a2531d2-0c90-4120-915c-bb556a490e80
Arizona LoCo: Sierra Vista Ubuntu Hour at Schlotzski’s; 11 June, 1800-1900
Arizona LoCo: Virtual Phoenix Ubuntu Hour on line; 11 June, 1900-2000 - Big Blue Button, https://bbb.azloco.net

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

Please also see:

Ubuntu Arizona LoCo: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/upcoming-events-for-azloco/38466
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts: https://ale.org/
Registered LoCo contacts: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/c/locos/129

The Hub

Introducing Workshop: launch sandboxed development environments on Ubuntu with a single command

Jean Baptiste Lallement introduces us to Workshop; a new development tool released by Canonical. We’re told how you configure the environment once, which can then be reproduced on different machines. We’re told its configured using simple YAML documents, runs in an unprivileged system container so it’s safe and ‘agent-ready’. Finally we’re told how to get started with it.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-workshop-launch-sandboxed-development-environments-on-ubuntu-with-a-single-command/83322

Canonical Launches Ubuntu Workshop for Sandboxed Development Environments - https://9to5linux.com/canonical-launches-ubuntu-workshop-for-sandboxed-development-environments
Canonical Releases Workshop As New Way Of Launching Development Environments - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Ubuntu-Workshop
Canonical’s Workshop: sandboxed, reproducible dev environments - https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/canonical-workshop-dev-environments

Announcing 7.2 Kernel for Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray

Kleber Souza of the Canonical Kernel Team announces the Linux 7.2 kernel is the “target version” for Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray. We’re given a list of key dates in the cycle (in regards to the kernel) and encouraged to test & provide feedback.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-7-2-kernel-for-ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray/83393/

Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-With-Linux-7.2

Ubuntu Cloud News

VMware hypervisor deployment using MAAS - https://ubuntu.com/blog/vmware-hypervisor-deployment-using-maas
Canonical announces optimized Ubuntu images for TPU virtual machines by Google Cloud - https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-announces-optimized-ubuntu-images-for-tpu-virtual-machines-by-google-cloud
- Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs - https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/28/google-canonical-team-up-to-certify-ubuntu-images-for-tpu-vms/5248028

Canonical News

Run agentic workloads on Arm and Ubuntu - https://ubuntu.com/blog/run-agentic-workloads-on-arm-and-ubuntu

In the Blogosphere

NVIDIA 610 Linux Graphics Driver Adds Vulkan and Wayland Improvements

Marcus Nestor tells us that NVIDIA has released their NVIDIA 610 series graphics drivers for Linux, FreeBSD & Solaris. We’re given some details, including a quote highlighting how some Wayland compositors can now offload color management to their NVIDIA hardware. We’re given a link to download NVIDIA 610.43.02 now but warned it’s a “new feature branch” thus not recommended for production, and we’re also told of an update to NVIDIA 580.105.08.

https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-610-linux-graphics-driver-adds-vulkan-and-wayland-improvements

Latest Steam Client Update Improves Steam Controller Support on Linux

Marcus Nestor writes about the latest Stream Client update from Valve. We’re told of some improvements for the new Steam controller, and more. We are given a link to the release notes too.

https://9to5linux.com/latest-steam-client-update-improves-steam-controller-support-on-linux

Canonical takes over Flutter desktop maintenance

Joey Sneddon informs us that Google has confirmed at Google I/O 2026 that Canonical is the new lead maintainer and ‘strategic steward’ of the Flutter Desktop for Windows, macOS & Linux. Kate Lovett of Google commented that the Flutter “desktop experience has reached a new level of maturity this year”, with Joey touching on various changes: including moving some libraries out of Flutter’s core SDK and into standalone packages, and more.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/flutter-desktop-canonical-maintained

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