Meet Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.8. Launched on Thursday and dubbed Hardy Hotrod, this version was build off Ubuntu 8.04 (manually, without the help of Reconstructor utility), and it comes in two flavors, one for 32 bit platforms and the other one for 64 bit ones. Ultimate Edition comes with everything you might need. It can be used by novices and even system administrators, as it is packed with applications ranging from media players to tweaking tools. You can listen to MP3s out of the box, and watch your favorite movies with audio and video players like Amarok, XMMS, VLC and Totem. You can download it right now from Softpedia.

An Ubuntu 8.04 release party announcement was spotted in many Berlin metro trains. The release party took place on April 26, this year, and the company that was responsible for the content shown on the television system from the trains displayed the announcement free of charge. The spots were seen by an audience of 1.5 million people per day. The television spots were detailing the date and the place of the Release Party.

If you want to optimize your Ubuntu 8.04 machine for speed, at the end of this week, we've released a nice tutorial with some useful hacks and tweaks. The hacks presented in this guide will greatly improve the overall performance of your Ubuntu 8.04 Linux OS. Take a look here for more information!

In other news, the Ubuntu Live conference, scheduled to take place on July 21-22 in Portland, was canceled. You can subscribe to the new Launchpad podcasts, called Launchpod!

Now, let's move on to the security updates and fixes for all the Ubuntu releases. First, the common security updates:

￭ OpenSSH update
￭ GnuTLS vulnerabilities
￭ OpenSSL Blacklist update

Let's start now with the updates for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

￭ OpenSSH-blacklist 0.1-1 ubuntu0.6.06.1
￭ OpenSSH_4.2p1-7 ubuntu3.4
￭ OpenSSL Blacklist 0.1-0 ubuntu0.6.06.1
￭ GnuTLS12 1.2.9-2 ubuntu1.2

Next, the updates for Ubuntu 7.04 are:

￭ OpenSSL Blacklist 0.1-0 ubuntu0.7.04.4
￭ GnuTLS13 1.4.4-3 ubuntu0.1

And the ones for Ubuntu 7.10:

￭ OpenSSL Blacklist 0.1-0 ubuntu0.7.10.4
￭ GnuTLS13 1.6.3-1 ubuntu0.1

Finally, below are the updates for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:

￭ Evolution Data Server 2.22.1.1-0 ubuntu3
￭ Audacious 1.5.0-2 ubuntu2~hardy1
￭ Apport 0.108.2
￭ Gnome Keyring 2.22.1-1 ubuntu1
￭ OpenSSL Blacklist 0.1-0 ubuntu0.8.04.4
￭ GTK VNC 0.3.4-0 ubuntu2
￭ Xorg Server 1.4.1~git20080131-1 ubuntu9.1
￭ Base Installer 1.86 ubuntu2.1
￭ Apt Setup 1:0.31 ubuntu8
￭ GnuTLS13 2.0.4-1 ubuntu2.1
￭ GDM 2.20.6-0 ubuntu2
￭ XServer Xorg Video Geode 2.9.0-1 ubuntu1

As you can see, this week brought some security updates for OpenSSL, OpenSSH and GnuTLS. Once again, make sure you update your Ubuntu machines right now! See you again next week for another Ubuntu Weekly Report.

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