UWN Issue 927 January 11-17 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 927 for the week of January 11 - 17, 2026.


In this Issue

  • Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) reached End of Life on 15th January 2026
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • Ubuntu Nepal’s Year End Contributors Meetup
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • A new Ubuntu wiki, Part 2: Features
  • Ubuntu Server Gazette – Issue 11 – AI-bots shall eat my docs…
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10
  • Archives
  • Further News
  • Conclusion
  • Credits
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Get Involved
  • Feedback
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) reached End of Life on 15th January 2026

Ural Tunaboyu of the Ubuntu Release team (on mailing list, Utkarsh Gupta reports on Ubuntu Discourse) announces the ‘End of Life’ for Ubuntu 25.04. We’re referred to the prior warning wherein Ubuntu 25.04 was released on the 17th of April 2025; it had a good nine months of supported life which has now ended. The effects of EOL, and a link for release-upgrading to Ubuntu 25.10, and more are provided.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2026-January/000320.html


Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144253 (+104)
  • Critical: 313 (0)
  • Unconfirmed: 74035 (+52)

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

Translations

  • Albanian: 98.86% (3986/106)
  • Swedish: 98.62% (4829/685)
  • Ukrainian: 89.17% (38012/1580)
  • German: 87.13% (45196/131)
  • French: 85.74% (50084/7505)

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

Ubuntu Nepal’s Year End Contributors Meetup

Aaditya Singh has written up a report on the ‘Year End Contributors Meetup’ for Ubuntu Nepal. Along with photos, we’re briefly told about the meetup.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-nepals-year-end-contributors-meetup/75076


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

A new Ubuntu wiki, Part 2: Features

Shane Crowley updates us on the new Ubuntu Wiki project. This post discusses the wiki engine choice, Ubuntu theming and some features that have been tested. A call for feedback, for example features wanted, is made so that ideas can be factored into the planning and testing. We’re told the wiki engine will be MediaWiki, shown some screenshots of new wiki pages, and more. This is a detailed post, with public alpha expected later in 2026.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/a-new-ubuntu-wiki-part-2-features/74916/

Ubuntu Server Gazette – Issue 11 – AI-bots shall eat my docs…

Sally Makin starts with her telling us how she lost time trying to use AI to help create a title. She gives thanks to a colleague and the Server team who helped her with this post. This post discusses various large language models (LLM) in regards to their use with documentation. We’re given details and comparisons, including times in this somewhat extensive study. Numerous pitfalls are mentioned; Sally concludes that using AI is mostly in the setup, with payments often appearing in the back end.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-server-gazette-issue-11-ai-bots-shall-eat-my-docs/75029


Other Community News

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Released With Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Setup

Michael Larabel informs us that the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop is available in beta form. We’re given details, a screenshot, and a link to KDE’s website should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.6-Beta


Ubuntu Cloud News


Canonical News


In the Blogosphere

Wine 11 is here with big improvements for Windows apps on Linux

Jordan Gloor tells us of the release of Wine 11.0 and its improvements. Jordan gives us details, which includes better Wayland support, and more.

https://www.howtogeek.com/wine-11-is-here-with-big-improvements-for-windows-apps-on-linux/

Ubuntu 26.04 Mass Rebuild Touches All Archive Packages

Joey Sneddon tells us why there is an “above-average amount of updates” coming to our Ubuntu resolute systems (if we’re running it), and warns us that most aren’t new features, just package rebuilds. We’re told it isn’t the whole package repository, but given details on which packages are included and more.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/ubuntu-2604-resolute-archive-rebuild

GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed

Michael Larabel writes about the “50.alpha” tags, and how they’ve excluded the X11 back-end, given that the focus is “exclusively on the Wayland session”. We’re given details on the effect and more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Shell-50-Alpha

Linux 7.0 To Expand Temperature Reporting For Intel Graphics Cards

Michael Larabel informs us of expanded GPU temperature reporting capabilities coming in future kernels (6.20~7.0). We’re given some details of the latest drm-xe-next pull request, with a link should we need more.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Intel-GPU-Temperature

GRUB 2.14 Bootloader Released With EROFS Support, Shim Loader Protocol

Michael Larabel explores the Grub 2.14 bootloader release. We’re given some details of new features (EROFS and more), enhancements (LVM & EFI support and more), a list of the release highlights, and a link to the mailing list announcement.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.14-Released

GNOME 49.3 Desktop Released with More Improvements and Bug Fixes

Marius Nestor writes about the GNOME 49.3 desktop release. Various improvements and bug fixes are mentioned with a link to the release announcement page, and more. We’re also told of the release of GNOME 48.8 and its more ‘limited’ changes with a link for more provided there too.

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-3-desktop-released-with-more-improvements-and-bug-fixes

Ubuntu 26.04 Aims To Deliver Better NVIDIA Wayland Performance Atop GNOME

Michael Larabel tells us about new NVIDIA graphics performance improvements we should have when Ubuntu 26.04 LTS releases. With a quote from (Daniel van Vugt), a Mutter merge request and subsequent comments (acknowledging improvements) details are provided. We’re also told even if these improvements don’t make it to Mutter 50, they’re expected to remain in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-Faster-NVIDIA

NVIDIA 590 being Made Available for Ubuntu 22.04|24.04|25.10

Ji m blogs that NVIDIA 590 is available for users of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 25.10. We’re told of its build for the Ubuntu multiverse repository, and whilst it doesn’t include “big new features”, we are told of performance improvements. We’re warned of some hardware that is no longer supported by this driver, and how to ensure we can install this if we want it.

https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/nvidia-590-being-made-available-for-ubuntu-22-0424-0425-10/


Featured Audio and Video

Linux User Space: Wayland Is the Future of Linux, Even KDE Plasma Agrees

“The KDE team has announced that X11 will soon (2027) be unsupported on Plasma and become Wayland-only rather than Wayland-first. Steam Deck is already there for the most part with Gamescope, and between normal installs of newer Plasma, Steam Deck, Kubuntu and Bazzite, Plasma is growing by the minute. Wayland is inevitable!”

https://tilvids.com/w/7keL8LDrZ2WEDwhyCG2feY


Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 25.04 and 25.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 22.04 Updates

End of Standard Support: April 2027

Ubuntu 24.04 Updates

End of standard support: April 2029

Ubuntu 25.04 Updates

End of Life: 15 January 2026

Ubuntu 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026


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