It’s Episode Seventeen of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Mycroft are here and speaking to your brain.

We’re here – all of us!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news

* Mycroft have announced version 0.7

* Allison Lortie writes why Gtk 4.0 is not Gtk 4 and Gtk 5.0 is not Gtk 5 and that’s OK

* Fedora 24 released!

* elementary 0.4 Loki was released

* Canonical announced that Snaps can now be installed on a variety of distributions

* Ethereum, an open blockchain platform, has sufferred an attack

* We discuss the community news:

* Snapd 2.0.8

* Zoltan Balogh has put out a call for testing the next version of the Ubuntu SDK

* Svetlana Belkin from the Ubuntu Community Council announced a ‘call for nominations’ to the Ubuntu Membership Board

* Jonathan Riddell has announced the availability of ISO images to test KDE Neon 5.7 from the git stable branch

* Daniel Holbach announced the third snappy playpen (which was/is today – but people can join in anytime)

* Canonical Design Team: QtDay 2016: Developing Ubuntu convergent apps with Qt

* The Changelog Podcast #207: Ubuntu Everywhere with Dustin Kirkland

* We discuss building a Maplin USB robot arm and controlling it from Ubuntu and making a little Arduino circuit.

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This weeks cover image comes from Wikimedia.

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our Google+ page or comment on our sub-Reddit.

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