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What are Ubuntu “dangerous” images?

Today, the Ubuntu Release Management Team has published their first monthly newsletter on Discourse to make more people aware of the news of Ubuntu development and release each month. August and July were very interesting when it comes to Ubuntu, because Ubuntu 24.04.3 was released, alongside the Oracular Oriole end of life.

Alongside these changes is the “dangerous” daily build images for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka where the team publishes DVD images that represent daily builds of Ubuntu 25.10, but with one significant key feature: all snaps will be updated to their latest versions using the edge channel instead of the more stable one.

“Why are those images created?” This is a question that you’re asking yourselves when you learn about this change. Those images are created to help developers that work on the seeded snaps for Ubuntu. This is to achieve maximum efficiency during the development of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and future Ubuntu versions to come biannually.

This apparently happened during the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) FDE “spike” that happened earlier this year, when the daily build images started providing snaps that were update to their latest “bleeding edge” versions to help developers.

To help reduce the workload, we expect that two kinds of daily build images be built: one that was always built with snaps in their stable versions, and one that is the “dangerous” images that we talked about earlier. This is beneficial for future spikes, and one of them, which is expected to start next Monday, will focus on the desktop prompting-client.

You can read the official newsletter here.

Read the newsletter

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka enters the feature freeze!

As of today, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka has entered the feature freeze according to the release schedule that you can see here. Also, you can consult the release notes that has the tentative versions of the major toolsets and the packages, since the feature freeze, here.

Generally, all packages now have to go through the bug fixing stage, which means that there will be no features being added to them to ensure stability of the release, which will happen this October. According to the mailing list entry, no new features will be added to any package, and only bug fixes will be allowed.

However, there are some packages that can make use of the feature freeze exceptions. In this case, developers can file the exception request by following the instructions in this link.

We are looking forward for the final release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka!

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 3 released!

As we’ve indicated earlier, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, 2025, has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu Discourse forum.

The third snapshot has been released, highlighting the changes between the previous snapshot (June 26th) and the current one (July 31st).

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR, will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

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Ubuntu 25.10’s TPM-based encryption is experimental

The TPM-based disk encryption, which is set up during the installation of Ubuntu 25.10, is considered to be an experimental feature that allows you to encrypt your Ubuntu installation using a hardware-based backend, called TPM 2.0, that usually ships with the latest motherboards. TPM ensures that the security of your computer system is not compromised before the operating system starts, which gives you greater security.

Starting from Ubuntu 25.10, this kind of encryption is considered experimental, because there are still some of the unsolved bugs that cause data loss, depending on the severity of the bug. However, future work on this feature might promote it to the production-ready status. Currently, it’s not suitable for production use.

More fine-grained checks have now been placed to ensure that enabling TPM/FDE can be done safely, such as vulnerability checks, TPM version checks, and configuration checks. If all conditions to have a trusted full disk encryption are met, you’ll be able to install Ubuntu 25.10 with FDE and TPM.

Disk encryption will be done in place as soon as the installation starts, creating a tight integration with your TPM to ensure that your data is secured at the hardware level.

There will be much more progress being done to this feature in this version of Ubuntu and beyond, so check the progress for the TPM/FDE implementation here.

Learn more

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will be released on October 9th, 2025.

Photo by Alena Darmel

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 2 released!

As we’ve indicated earlier, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, 2025, has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu Discourse forum.

The second snapshot has been released, highlighting the changes between the previous snapshot (May 29th) and the current one (June 26th).

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR, will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 1 released!

As we’ve indicated earlier, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, 2025, has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu Discourse forum.

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR, will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

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Rust Coreutils “uutils” v0.1 released!

The developers behind the Rust coreutils, called uutils, have reached a major milestone with the release of v0.1.0. This comes after the last release, which was v0.0.30. This version is now on GitHub, which you can check out below.

Learn more

This version of uutils contains many interesting changes done to the system utilities, including cp, ls, and others. The SELinux support has been added to cp, ls, mkdir, mknod, mkfifo, install, and stat for systems that are security oriented. This makes sure that systems with this coreutils implementation can now enjoy better security with SELinux enabled, especially when SELinux is enforcing.

In addition to that, the speed has been improved to match and possibly exceed the legacy GNU coreutils performance. You can now notice the improved speed in commands like cat, ls, wc, tail, seq, and more.

Thanks to many commits and contributions done to the Rust coreutils project, it has witnessed many changes done to various commands, such as date allowing negative date offsets, echo allowing double hyphens, and print fixing octal escape parsing.

In addition to that, the test suite compatibility has seen increasing number of successes. While 0.0.30 has 507 passes; 41 skips; and 69 fails, version 0.1.0 has 522 passes; 31 skips; and 65 passes.

As a result, as future versions get released, compatibility with the older GNU coreutils increases. This is evidenced by the increasing number of succeeding unit tests for the Rust coreutils project, especially when it comes to SELinux-related tests.

You can consult the official website of Rust coreutils below.

Official website

What about Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is planning to ship uutils to replace the older GNU coreutils as part of the broader plan, called “Oxidizing Ubuntu.” Ubuntu 25.10 will be the first version of Ubuntu that will use this coreutils implementation to ensure that your Ubuntu system becomes both more secure and quicker; furthermore, your productivity will increase as the improved performance becomes prevalent in this release.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use the Rust coreutils during the development cycle, along with the Rust implementation of sudo called rs-sudo. In later development milestones, Ubuntu will use the findutils and the diffutils projects from the master uutils project.

You will be able to download the stable release of this Ubuntu version on October 9th, 2025.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use Linux 6.17!

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use the upcoming Linux 6.17, which will come after Linux 6.16 that succeeds the next week’s Linux 6.15 stable release. This is done according to the official Canonical forum post that was made today, backed by their commitment to providing the latest hardware support by using the latest Linux kernel release that was released by the feature freeze. This allows Canonical to use the latest release candidate of the Linux 6.17 kernel that is to be out in October according to the prediction list.

To recap, the following release milestones will be:

  • September 11, 2025 (UTC): Kernel Feature Freeze
  • September 15, 2025 (UTC): Beta Freeze / HWE Freeze
  • September 25, 2025 (UTC): Kernel Freeze
  • October 2, 2025 (UTC): Final Freeze
  • October 9, 2025 (UTC): Final Release

However, the team advises that the timeline is tentative, suggesting that there may be changes to be done. However, the changes to the release schedule are unlikely to occur.

Ubuntu 25.10 is the upcoming release of this operating system, which should be out in October 9th.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will improve your desktop experience

Last month, Ubuntu 25.10 development had started by updating the Ubuntu repository servers to serve new information for this upcoming version of Ubuntu, which is the final interim release before the next Long Term Support (LTS) release, which will be Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR. The roadmap has been finally shared on the Ubuntu Discourse forums to let you know about how this version of Ubuntu will progress.

According to the roadmap, the following key features of Ubuntu 25.10 (our curation) will be:

  • Desktop Experience
    • GNOME 49 will land to this version of Ubuntu to bring in some of Wayland-related improvements, especially when you’re on a computer that uses NVIDIA graphics cards, the latest being NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50xx series.
    • Loupe will be used by default as a new image editor that will streamline your user experience. Meanwhile, a new terminal emulator, Ptyxis (or GNOME Prompt), will be used in lieu of the older GNOME Terminal, all under the GNOME umbrella.
    • If you are gaming on Ubuntu, the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) feature has been added to Mutter to improve your gaming performance on compatible monitors, such as the latest Samsung Odyssey gaming monitors.
    • RISC-V users will be able to experience the full Ubuntu Desktop for the first time, especially as this processor architecture gains in popularity. Basic applications, such as Mozilla Firefox, will be usable there.
  • TPM-backed FDE
    • Full disk encryption will be backed by your TPM chip that is either discrete or integrated, especially when you’re using TPM 2.0. The recovery key management will be available to you, where you’ll be able to view, save, and print your recovery key during the installation stage. You can regenerate the key later, in case you lost it. You will be able to use your PIN.
    • In addition to that, firmware updates, especially the BIOS ones, may trigger a “hardware change” detection mechanism, which will cause your system to prompt you for your recovery key to unlock your hard drive again. Taking this into account, the firmware updater will give you a warning message when you proceed to upgrade the firmware. BIOS updates will only be done if you’ve enabled UEFI capsule and you’re booting Ubuntu in UEFI mode.
  • Ubuntu Desktop Documentation
    • Starting from this version of Ubuntu, the documentation will be refined to diverge from the traditional and hard-to-follow generic documentation to the more refined docs to allow end users to learn more about the Ubuntu Desktop more efficiently.
  • Accessibility
    • While accessibility remains a core part of Ubuntu’s mission, the Ubuntu team is preparing to follow all the rules by the deadline of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) enforcement, which will be in June 2025.
    • Accessibility features will be improved to make sure that everyone will be able to use the Ubuntu desktop.

The release timeline will be as follows:

  • Feature Freeze: August 14, 2025
  • User Interface Freeze: September 4, 2025
  • Beta Release: September 18, 2025
  • Final Release: October 9, 2025

Stay tuned for more Ubuntu updates!

Image by marymarkevich on Freepik

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Ubuntu 25.10 will include sudo-rs

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will include sudo-rs by default as part of a plan to use more Rust-based core system components, such as the Rust CoreUtils “uutils” that will replace the standard GNU CoreUtils written in C. According to the MemorySafety blog, both sudo and su have been rewritten in Rust to ensure that they are memory safe, in comparison to the standard ones that are written in the 1980s.

Earlier, the Rust-based CoreUtils is used as part of a plan that allows Canonical to migrate from the older CoreUtils to the newer one to ensure memory safety. Although there is a drawback involving uutils’ bigger size in comparison to the GNU version, memory safety is more important. Because of this downside, it’s possible that the Docker containers may still use the traditional GNU CoreUtils.

Currently, sudo-rs is maintained by Trifecta Tech Foundation, which announced that Canonical confirmed the sudo-rs migration. This non-profit organization has also announced that this move was “part of a broader effort by Canonical to improve the resilience and maintainability of core system components.”

All this is part of the broader plan that will make sure that Ubuntu uses the Rust infrastructure.

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