UWN Issue 933 February 22-28 2026.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 933 for the week of February 22 - 28, 2026.


In this Issue

  • Resolute Snapshot 4 released
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Other Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) News
  • Report on the Second Ubuntu Africa Community Meetup
  • Ubuntu Circles! (LoCo) Events
  • loudspeaker: Call for testing nemotron-3-nano snap
  • Resolute Raccoon Wallpaper Competition Inclusions
  • Anbox Cloud Dashboard: AI-powered testing with GitHub Copilot
  • A new Ubuntu wiki, Part 4: Archiving
  • Ubuntu @ OS2ATC 2026
  • LXD 6.7 has been released
  • What else do Engineers do all year at Canonical? | How we keep innovation moving
  • Action Required: Ubuntu to retire Legacy NVIDIA Graphics Drivers 470
  • Technical Author on engineering duty: Launchpad support
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 25.10

General Community News

Resolute Snapshot 4 released

Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team announces the 4th and final monthly snapshot of Ubuntu Resolute (26.04). We’re given links for easy download of many of the flavors, links to the progressing release notes, and more. We’re also reminded of Feature Freeze, and the focus now on bug detection and squashing.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/resolute-snapshot-4-released/77687


Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open: 144765 (+81)
  • Critical: 309 (+1)
  • Unconfirmed: 74370 (+46)

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% (1/1236)
  • Albanian: 98.87% (3976/0)
  • Ukrainian: 89.21% (37878/1657)
  • German: 87.16% (45071/468)
  • French: 85.78% (49935/7674)

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

Report on the Second Ubuntu Africa Community Meetup

Bright Adams gives us a report on the Second Ubuntu Africa Community Meetup. Along with a photo, we’re told the Meetup was held at Cafe One, Lagos, told the focus of the Meetup, some other topics are reviewed, and that it was “a productive and motivating gathering”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/report-on-the-second-ubuntu-africa-community-meetup/77579


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

loudspeaker: Call for testing nemotron-3-nano snap

Farshid Tavakolizadeh makes a call for testing nemotron-3-nano snap. We’re told firstly of the new release of nemotron-3-nano inference snap, what it is (lightweight LLM), then how to install it, and more. Some optimizations, getting started and feedback details are provided too.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-nemotron-3-nano-snap/77501

Resolute Raccoon Wallpaper Competition Inclusions

This post made on the Resolute Racoon Wallpaper Competition thread gives the top five winners selected for each category. Aaron thanks all who participated in providing photos/artwork, and/or voted; he tells us it was a “stellar turnout” before giving us a list (with link to see artwork) in each category.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/vote-resolute-raccoon-wallpaper-competition/75838/30

Anbox Cloud Dashboard: AI-powered testing with GitHub Copilot

Tarek Hanna reminds us testing is a “critical” part of building reliable software and addresses some needs of Anbox testing. This post explores the usage of AI in the testing of Anbox, using GitHub Copilot and the creation of the tests, and testing using Storybook. This is a detailed post that includes a few figures, gives an opinion on GitHub Copilot, and ends with “AI didn’t replace our existing workflows, it strengthened them”.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/anbox-cloud-dashboard-ai-powered-testing-with-github-copilot/77559/

A new Ubuntu wiki, Part 4: Archiving

Shane Crowley, in his 4th post on the new Ubuntu Wiki, tells us of a public read-only archive of older Ubuntu wikis that are now on GitHub. A GIF quickly shows us how to search, with clues on cloning the repository & searching locally too provided, or we can download a tarball. We’re reminded of the reason for this and given some details on the creation of this archive. Shane gives thanks to Marek Suchánek, Robert Krátký and Nicolas Bello Lugo.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/a-new-ubuntu-wiki-part-4-archiving/77616/

Ubuntu @ OS2ATC 2026

Mauro Gaspari has created this event page giving details of Ubuntu @ OS2ATC 2026 in Beijing. If we’d like to get involved, we’re invited to reach out.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-os2atc-2026/77614

LXD 6.7 has been released

Thomas Parrott tells us of the LXD team releasing LXD 6.7. We’re given a list of the new features and highlights, shown a quick LXD UI update tour via screenshots, told of tooling updates, and given details on downloading. We’re also told it’s in 6/candidate channel, and will be moved to 6/stable ‘next week’.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lxd-6-7-has-been-released/77656

What else do Engineers do all year at Canonical? | How we keep innovation moving

Nkeiruka Whenu blogs about Engineers and Canonical. This post focuses on two events the Web team are involved with, being External Hack Week, and Internal Hack Week. We’re given details of these hack weeks.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/what-else-do-engineers-do-all-year-at-canonical-how-we-keep-innovation-moving/77718

Action Required: Ubuntu to retire Legacy NVIDIA Graphics Drivers 470

Jose Ogando, in posting an End of Life notice from the Ubuntu kernel team, tells us of NVIDIA Graphics Drivers 470 series demise. We’re told the last update published by NVIDIA was back on June 4, 2024, with users migrating automatically to NVIDIA Graphics Drivers 535. We’re given details so we can check to see if we’ll be impacted and told what we should do too if we are.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/action-required-ubuntu-to-retire-legacy-nvidia-graphics-drivers-470/77725


The Planet

Technical Author on engineering duty: Launchpad support

Charles Ododa blogs to impart what he has learned in respect to how documentation plays such a role in support. He tells us about being on support for Launchpad, which includes some details of those who perform this duty normally. We’re told why Charles, a technical author, chose to do this support, how he ‘shadowed engineers’ so he was ready, then some of the ‘events’ during that first support week. Some final words are given including ‘supporting users is a team responsibility’.

https://blog.launchpad.net/general/technical-author-on-engineering-duty-launchpad-support


Other Community News

Unmasking the Resolute Raccoon

Aaron Prisk briefly talks about raccoons, before introducing us to the official wallpapers of Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon. Included are quotes from Marcus Haslam, who is the animal artist, before the post moves to a reveal of the winners of the Ubuntu Wallpapers Competition for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/unmasking-the-resolute-raccoon

Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor

Ravie Lakshmanan alerts us to a malicious Go module that ‘harvests passwords’ that has been found by Cyersecurity researchers. We’re given the module name, told how it works, and that at time of writing the package remains listed.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/malicious-go-crypto-module-steals.html


Canonical News


In the Blogosphere

Ubuntu 26.04 breaks a sudo tradition older than most of its users

Joey Sneddon informs us that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS now shows ‘*’ when you type a letter of your password into the sudo prompt. Joey mentions the traditional reason why no feedback is shown (security), as well as the sudo-rs developers thoughts on the matter. Joey in noting some users aren’t happy highlights a raised bug report, and more is discussed; including how we can change the default so it matches older Ubuntu releases.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-26-04-sudo-password-asterisks


Featured Audio and Video

Rust Nation UK: Rust Adoption At Scale with Ubuntu - Jon Seager

“Following the Oxidizing Ubuntu initiative which saw Ubuntu 25.10 become the first major Linux distribution to release with Rust rewrites of core system packages such as coreutils and sudo, this talk covers the motivation behind the initiative, how it went and what comes next! We’ll also explore Rust adoption at Canonical, why we think Rust is interesting, and the challenges we’ve got ahead of us.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOA4GA8tAWA


Updates and Security for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, 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 25.10 Updates

End of Life: July 2026


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