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Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed 'Stonking Stingray', entered feature freeze on 20 August - though the formal announcement arrive later than usual. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along with the rest of the package set, ahead of the final, stable Ubuntu 26.10 release in October. "Ideally, you should all now be focusing on bug fixing rather than getting new features into the release", said Paride Legovini, engineer at Canonical, in a post on the Ubuntu developer mailing list on 24 August, 2026. However, the final makeup of Ubuntu 26.10 - set to offer […]

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25 Aug 2026 1:07am GMT

A major update to open-vm-tools, a package that integrates Linux virtual machines with VMware hypervisors, is rolling out to users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. "Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more recent hypervisors", Canonical's Lena Voytek explained in a backport request. It's a full backport from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to support platform enablement to benefit those running 24.04 LTS. The open-vm-tool package goes from v12.3.5 to v13.0.10 (the same version in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS). VMware's open-vm-tools package enables clock sync with the hypervisor host, 'graceful' power management for clean shutdowns, vSphere API, shared folder support, relays […]

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24 Aug 2026 3:39pm GMT

A decades-old bug on Ubuntu's Launchpad marked as invalid at the weekend led to an impromptu reunion for many of Canonical's former engineers. Bug #1589796 was filed in 2016 by a user who'd spent £700 on Ubuntu phone and tablet hardware but, on visiting the official website, found no documentation to tell him how to use them. Canonical axed the Ubuntu Phone project in 2017, leaving this bug unresolved. Until now. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, on the Ubuntu bug triage team, marked the bug invalid this weekend, closing it with a comment to explain (nearly a decade late) that phone "efforts […]

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23 Aug 2026 9:27pm GMT

Postcard is a new email client for GNOME sporting a modern design reminiscent of Geary. The app is the work of a solo developer, gxanshu on GitHub, who is upfront about using AI coding tools to bring this "modern mail client" to life. Postcard is written in Python with GTK4/libadwaita. It uses imaplib and smtplib for networking, a local SQLite index for searching, WebKitGTK for rendering HTML and libsecret for keeping passwords safe. It's also open source, so the code is inspectable. Visually, Postcard should look familiar to fans of the Geary email client, as it uses a similar multi-column design: folders […]

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22 Aug 2026 2:05am GMT

A new project file format is in the works for GIMP, as the existing one can't handle larger, complex projects. Since 1997, the famed FOSS image editor has used the binary .xcf format to save projects so layers, effects and anything else can be edited and adjusted again - which doesn't happen in a flat file export to JPEG or PNG. But, writing in a recent development update, the team has said it's finding "more and more limitations" in the current format. And with major new features, like animation and multi-page documents, on GIMP's near-term roadmap, it's begun working on a […]

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20 Aug 2026 9:05pm GMT

You can bring Ubuntu's clock, calendar and weather app icons to life with the Dynamic Calendar, Clocks and Weather Icons [Reborn] GNOME Shell extension - which has been updated with new icon styles. The extension already has Yaru, Adwaita, Paprius, Big Sur and other icon styles built-in (the dynamic versions don't depend on the icon sets themselves), so you see real-time clock, date and weather info on icons that look like their static equivalents. Two new icon choices land in latest update, v9, released this week (17 August 2026), Stylish and Pure: In the screenshot above, you can see how […]

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20 Aug 2026 2:46pm GMT

Tuba 0.11 adds full Mastodon quote and Collections support, UnifiedPush and an early, experimental Android build. Linux's best Mastodon app, now better!

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20 Aug 2026 2:04am GMT

If you've been eyeing up one of PINE64's Linux-friendly single-board computers, phones or tablets, now would be a good time to buy one. The open-hardware company has announced it will not be "producing more Linux devices" for the time being, and expects its existing stock of certain devices, including the PineNote and PineTab 2, to sell out in the next three months. After that, there won't be more until. Why's the company pulling the plug on production? One guess: RAMaggeddon. The AI infrastructure boom continues apace, and demand for memory and storage chips has reduced supply and driven up costs […]

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19 Aug 2026 3:49pm GMT

Mozilla has released Firefox 154 with some small AI-related changes, an 'improved' full-page translations and faster video seeking on "all operating systems". Firefox 154 serves as the final monthly release of Firefox before browser switches to a faster, twice-monthly release schedule early September. That means you'll be back here, reading "Firefox 155 released" in a couple weeks, rather than the usual four weeks. But enough what's coming; what's new now? Firefox 154's main changes Firefox's been expanding its range of address bar actions in recent releases. We got tab muting action in v152 and an colour picker in v153. Firefox […]

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18 Aug 2026 1:46pm GMT

I recently re-encountered my favourite 'error' dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro's App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. Now, I don't see it often, but when I do it (un)helpfully informs me: "Something went wrong. We're sorry, but we're not sure what the error is." I appreciate its honesty and sympathise with the general sense of unease it imparts - I say something similar myself, looking at the state of the world - but surely it's the software's job to know what's wrong - or at least pretend it does! Here's the […]

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18 Aug 2026 12:32am GMT

They say never judge a book by its cover, and few do if said book is a dictionary, but what about desktop dictionary apps? I recently came across Wordbook, a modern English-English dictionary powered by OpenEnglish WordNet and eSpeak for pronunciations. Wordbook is in GNOME Circle, and its GTK4/libadwaita UI is a good fit for the desktop. Wordbook uses a lexical database, with words grouped into 'synsets' based on their meaning. It makes it easier to explore related words, distinguish between words that look similar (but have different meanings) and find different precise alternatives. A random word option, favourites and […]

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17 Aug 2026 10:30pm GMT

Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, adding cache-aware scheduling, ext4 filesystem performance boosts and a slew of new and improved hardware drivers for laptops and peripherals. A merge widow record was also set during the 9-week development cycle, with more than 2,100 individual contributors involved. AI, obviously, has helped. Commit-crunching by LWN found roughly 5% of commits in 7.2 have an 'assisted-by' tag, indicating AI usage. Not that the latest kernel update was all additions. More than 13,000 lines of code for legacy i486 CPU emulation were removed from Linux 7.2, as was a 40-year-old Hercules graphics card driver, AppleTalk […]

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16 Aug 2026 11:04pm GMT

If you remember that desktop picture widget for GNOME I wrote about last year, but found it a bit too basic for your personalisation preferences, you weren't alone. Another user felt it could lacked enough flexibility, so forked and improved it. Picture Desktop Widget Remake improves on the original. It lets add multiple picture widgets to your Ubuntu desktop, and assign each one a different folder to pull images from, at random. Plus, you can set the size, position, border radius and aspect ratio of each widget individually. Each photo frame has its own on/off button in Preferences, so you […]

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14 Aug 2026 4:02pm GMT

GeForce NOW's native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontend for Nvidia's game streaming service, with more than 4,500 PC titles running in the cloud on Nvidia servers. Users get GeForce RTX-class performance, ray tracing and DLSS without the need to own the relevant hardware. In a blog post to announce its 'graduation' from beta, Nvidia say GeForce NOW for Linux has picked up "performance, stability and polish" improvements thanks to community feedback during the beta test period. The company also touches on […]

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13 Aug 2026 3:22pm GMT

Canonical announces that the Advantech AOM-2721 is officially joining the list of Ubuntu Certified Hardware.

13 Aug 2026 10:25am GMT

LightDM, Ubuntu's former display manager, has had its first new release in four years - and the first under a new set of maintainers. LightDM v1.33.0 is a 'catch up' release that adds Qt6 support (Qt5 still works, don't worry) and clears a backlog of fixes that had built up since the previous release in 2022. There shouldn't be any breaking changes either, per the release notes. While it might sound like a sudden revival of a legacy effort, LightDM is still widely used by Linux distributions and desktops. LightDM: what is it? LightDM is a backend that handles logging […]

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12 Aug 2026 4:16pm GMT

GNOME 51, due out in September, could include a redesigned search experience. Presently, when you trigger a search from the GNOME Shell overview, a dedicated search results screen replaces the one you were looking at, either the workspaces or app picker. But a change targeted for GNOME Shell in v51 plans to change that. Modern GNOME Shell is designed around a 'semantic' model, where elements visibly enter and exit from a specific place (with animations providing cues) so you know how one screen relates to the next. Under this model, search results would appear in an overlay that 'spawns out […]

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11 Aug 2026 11:33pm GMT

Canonical is pleased to announce that NVIDIA's newly introduced NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open, customizable model built for always-on AI agents, is now available on Ubuntu with single-command installation. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open 30B hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 3B active parameters, designed for high-throughput agentic workloads. It is fully customizable, […]

11 Aug 2026 1:00pm GMT

Confidential computing is moving quickly. The foundation is already here: AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX have made it possible to run confidential virtual machines (VMs) with stronger protection for data in use. Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support (LTS) brings integrated host and guest support for both of these technologies, making confidential computing a native part […]

27 Jul 2026 10:57am GMT

Most organizations already understand encryption at rest and encryption in transit. These controls are mature, widely deployed, and often explicitly referenced in security frameworks. However, runtime is different: when an application processes sensitive information, that data is typically available in memory. In a traditional infrastructure model, the workload owner may need to trust a large […]

24 Jul 2026 3:27pm GMT

Meet Alex, an Android developer. In this article, we'll follow Alex through their day to show you how Anbox Cloud supports Alex from feature development to release. Alex's focus for today is building a ride-tracking feature for their ride-sharing app.

24 Jul 2026 11:12am GMT

Canonical introduces a new way to manage software behind firewalls and in air-gapped environments with the Enterprise Store. The Enterprise Store makes software distribution manageable and scalable behind firewalls or in air-gapped environments. Available with an Ubuntu Pro subscription, the Enterprise Store respects the security protocols of strict environments, in a way that is controllable, […]

21 Jul 2026 2:25pm GMT

How Canonical Support helped a global retail organization trace the cause for an unusual memory leak originating in PID 1. By investigating the issue across three separate system layers our team was able to identify the source and fast-track a patch.

17 Jul 2026 8:04am GMT

MAAS brings cloud-like automation to physical servers. It helps teams discover, commission, deploy, and repurpose machines from a central control plane, turning bare metal into a programmable resource. But to experience that value, users first need to get MAAS up and running. That path is now cleaner and easier to follow. We've created new documentation […]

14 Jul 2026 3:00pm GMT

Introduction A local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel was publicly disclosed on July 6, 2026. The vulnerability was assigned CVE ID CVE-2026-53359 and is referred to as Januscape. This vulnerability affects all Ubuntu releases. Neither NVD nor Kernel.org have published their own CVSS scores for this issue; we calculated it as CVSS […]

11 Jul 2026 8:00pm GMT

Modern infrastructure teams are expected to deliver cloud-like speed, consistency, and reliability, even when their workloads run on physical servers. Bare metal remains essential for many environments: private clouds, Kubernetes clusters, AI infrastructure, edge sites, regulated platforms, and large Ubuntu estates. But operating physical infrastructure at scale is difficult when provisioning, patching, monitoring, and lifecycle […]

09 Jul 2026 3:17pm GMT

A platform is an environment that allows software to run smoothly across the infrastructure, runtime, and application layers. The key word there is "smoothly": a good platform connects those layers so well that you don't notice it. That's what Ubuntu Server has become: the essential layer between bare metal and the apps running on top, […]

07 Jul 2026 4:42pm GMT

Canonical is pleased to share its latest research report, "The open source chain of trust." Based on a survey of 500 DevOps professionals, the report highlights how organizations approach their open source software supply chains. While many companies are moving toward verifiable provenance and automated security workflows, internal misalignment and disjointed approaches remain serious challenges […]

06 Jul 2026 2:39pm GMT