# Ubuntu Budgie team meeting: 18 August 2025

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**Created:** [August 17, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-team-meeting-18-august-2025/7959 "2025-08-17T22:38:39Z")\
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The Ubuntu Budgie team meets once a month to discuss recent updates and what’s coming next for Ubuntu Budgie. **Meeting notes from Ubuntu Budgie team meeting of 18 August 2025, 16:30 UTC.**

## Updates from upstream

- Budgie is still facing display manager issues, fallback is to fork wdisplays. @fossfreedom will provide further updates.
- Debian is out of freeze status
- GNOME 49 has broken budgie: fedora is in a worst state than Ubuntu, but budgie overall is broken.
  - gsd moved from gsd to mutter
  - moved wacom support to mutter
  - Disabled building x settings support

## Release updates

- Questing 25.10 wallpapers shared and made available by various blogs
- crystaldock looks quite promising. It would require uploading to to debian.
- Release announcement to push towards the wayland story.
- blog post to focus on the"Questing towards the wayland" focus on the work to enable wayland, and encourage more testing via PPA. @ilvipero to work with @samlane and @Kyuyrii to get bullet points of major work items, links with pictures and software, packages.
- 8-10 images for wallpapers? Any volunteers for this? we could potentially look for images in the Ubuntu wallpaper competition, but we should only pick those that are not already in Ubuntu.

## Ubuntu Budgie website

- Ubuntu Budgie will soon be moving to static pages
- markdown formatting is available for blog posts
- github integration for website changes or blog posts

## Domain renewals

- Domain renewal needs to be done by September .2025 for .org
- Domain renewal to be done by April 2026 for .com

Thanks all that managed to attend the monthly team meeting.  
**Next meeting 21 September 2025 - 4:30 pm UTC**