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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 520 for the weeks of September 19 - October 2, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue520

Daniel Holbach announces the results of the recent election for the seats on the Ubuntu Community Council on which Anis El Achèche, Leo Arias, Marco Ceppi, Aaron Honeycutt, Walter Lapchynksi, José Antonio Rey, and Martin Wimpress will serve for the next two years. He thanks all the nominees and vote...
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 519 for the weeks of September 5 - 18, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue519

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 518 for the weeks of August 22 - September 4, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue518

Martin Wimpress announces the availability of the first beta of Artful Aardvark, which will become Ubuntu 17.10. This milestone includes images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu. They include warnings for those unfamiliar with beta releases, w...
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 517 for the week of August 15 - 21, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue517

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 516 for the week of August 8 - 14, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue516

Alan Pope of Canonical tells us the Ubuntu 17.10 is progressing at top speed. Because of the major change being the new GNOME Shell, volunteers are requested to help fine tune the GUI experience. The hackfest is 24th & 25th August at the London office, with skilled help wanted on the 24th. The deadl...
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 515 for the week of August 1 - 7, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue515

With security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, Ubuntu 16.04.3 is finally here. The release is aimed at providing a convenient set of images containing security updates and bugfixes for people to use when installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on their system.
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 514 for the weeks of July 17 - 31, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue514

Adam Conrad of the Ubuntu Release Team confirmed that Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) is no longer supported after July 20, 2017. Adam provides a brief history of Ubuntu 16.10 from release and the consequences of 16.10 no longer receiving security notices or fixes. Links are provided including upgrade pa...
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 513 for the weeks of July 3 - 17, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue513

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 512 for the week June 26 - July 2, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue512

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 511 for the weeks of June 12 - 25, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue511

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 510 for the week of June 5 - 11, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue510

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 509 for the weeks May 22 - June 4, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue509

Lukasz Zemczak also announced that Colin King has been granted with PPU rights for the zfsutils-linux and spl-linux packages.
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 508 for the week May 15 - 21, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue508

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 507 for the weeks May 1-14 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue507

Kubuntu have their first wallpaper contest for the 17.10 Artful Aardvark release, and it's open to any user. Submissions are to be made by flickr and full details provided, with a June 8 2017 deadline.
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 506 for the week of April 24 - 30, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue506

Adam Conrad on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team provides a follow-up End of Life notice to alert users that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is no longer supported. Information and links on the upgrade path is provided, as well as information about Extended Security Support for the release for Ubuntu Advantage cus...
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 505 for the weeks April 10 - 23, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue505

On behalf of the release team, Adam Conrad announces the release of Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus). He shares key features of this release, including a new 4.10-based kernel and other updates in core packages. Links for downloading the release as well as the flavor releases are provided.
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 504 for the weeks March 27 - April 9, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue504

Mark Shuttleworth, on behalf of Canonical, announces changes coming to the Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu’s convergence effort. He writes, “I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ub...
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 503 for the weeks March 13 - 26, 2017 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue503