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The Ghostty terminal is now packaged in the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS repositories - meaning for those on the new long-term support release, it's only an apt install away. Ghostty is a fast, open-source terminal emulator for macOS and Linux (Windows support is seemingly trapped between planes), made by Mitchell Hashimoto. It's picked up millions of users since its launch in December 2024, and has been available on Ubuntu via a community-maintained PPA, DEB and Snap packages for a while. This is its first appearance in the Ubuntu repos proper. What makes Ghostty different? "Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform […]

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10 Apr 2026 3:36pm GMT

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> Ubuntu 26.04 LTS significantly raises the security baseline by strengthening defaults across every layer of the system without requiring manual intervention. Key improvements include production-ready hardware-backed encryption, post-quantum-aware cryptographic defaults, modern TLS configurations, and expanded support for confidential computing technologies like AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX. The release also advances memory safety by adopting Rust-based tools, reduces privilege in identity services, and introduces a Security Center that makes protections visible and manageable throughout the system lifecycle.

10 Apr 2026 2:44pm GMT

Amazon is dropping support for Kindle older models from 20 May, 2026, meaning owners of pre-2013 models will be unable to download new books or set up a device that has been factory reset - deregistering a device will effectively 'brick' it. While no company can support all of their products forever (one could argue a company the size of this one could, mind), most of the devices impacted, listed below, have not received firmware updates for over a decade, and most lost on-device access the Kindle Store. The following 2012 or earlier Kindles are affected, as of 20 May, […]

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09 Apr 2026 10:59pm GMT

A new version of Miracle-wm, a tiling window manager built around the Wayland compositor Mir, has been released with a new WebAssembly plugin system and Rust API. Developer Matthew Kosarek, an engineer at Canonical who created miracle-wm as a personal side project, says the new plugin system in v0.9 release will allow for greater window management, animation and configuration, thus making miracle-wm "truly hackable". He also shared a video overview of the changes in the latest update: A new Rust API for writing plugins is supported in Miracle 0.9, with documentation available for fans of the memory-safe language to swot over; […]

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09 Apr 2026 6:36pm GMT

In this article, Keirthana TS, a Senior Technical Author at Canonical, breaks down what leadership means to her and how she understood the power of intentional leadership through her journey at Canonical.

09 Apr 2026 12:12pm GMT

A clutch of new features are available in Dynamic Music Pill, the slick now playing and media controller extension for GNOME Shell. The "big" new addition is lyrics support. When you listen to a track with synced lyrics in a compatible player, you can view those lyrics by opening the applet controller and clicking on the album art inside of it: The lyrics are shown in a freely scrollable widget, with the active line bolder in white for more emphasis. You can scroll up and down whilst tracks are playing. If you click a lyric line, your music player jumps […]

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09 Apr 2026 3:34am GMT

Little Snitch is now on Linux. See which apps are making network connections, block unwanted ones and find out how chatty your system really is.

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08 Apr 2026 6:59pm GMT

Nutanix and Canonical expand partnership to offer more choice for containerized workloads Enterprise Kubernetes® is maturing into a highly flexible, multi-architecture model. As AI/ML and data-intensive workloads continue to demand maximum hardware throughput, organizations are seeking the performance of bare metal without sacrificing the operational consistency of cloud platforms. To meet this demand, Nutanix and […]

08 Apr 2026 12:45pm GMT

In this blog I will look at some of the drivers for the growth of RISC-V, its value proposition and explain why supporting RISC-V is important to Canonical.

07 Apr 2026 4:26pm GMT

Firefox recently added a free built-in VPN to its desktop browser, but access to the feature is rolling out gradually. It hit my Ubuntu machine last night - and I'm last to be invited to anything, so I thought I'd write a quick rundown of what it actually does, what it doesn't, and how to set it - assuming you have it. If you're waiting for it to roll out to you, there's no special update or download to look out for as this is a progressive rollout feature - Mozilla enables it remotely, in stages. There was no fanfare […]

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06 Apr 2026 9:58pm GMT

Further to Ubuntu Pro features being added to the desktop Security Center, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS also makes it easier to opt-in to Canonical's (free for home users) subscription to get extended security updates, right from the wizard shown after installation. The first slide in the distro's Welcome tool (package namegnome-initial-setup, with Ubuntu-specific modifications) is Enable Ubuntu Pro. The tool opens the first time a user logs in after installing the OS. Signposting the feature in the Welcome tool makes it easier to enrol your system in Ubuntu Pro: The flow is presented simply: either select 'Enable Ubuntu Pro', or choose […]

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05 Apr 2026 11:57pm GMT

A couple of new icons have been added to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, to ensure the Resolute Raccoon's new default apps sport a Yaru-ified look in keeping with the rest of the distro. Ubuntu's new default system monitor tool Resources gains a new icon. In the Ubuntu 26.04 beta, the app was still sporting its upstream icon. That didn't look out of place per se, but shape did not conform to the Yaru icon template (circle, squircle or upright rectangle). That's now fixed. Still identifiably a system monitor, but uses the round template with less busy scale markings and simpler gauge […]

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04 Apr 2026 3:59pm GMT

Skyscraper is a free, open-source Bluesky terminal client written in Rust. Browse, post and reply without leaving the command line - here's how to run it on Ubuntu.

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03 Apr 2026 10:55pm GMT

Following the incredible success of Ubuntu Summit 25.10, we are thrilled to announce that Ubuntu Summit 26.04 is officially on the horizon. If you are new to the Ubuntu community, every new release of Ubuntu comes with an Ubuntu Summit - an event that takes place twice a year and serves as a showcase of […]

03 Apr 2026 8:17am GMT

March 2026 meted out a sizeable set of Linux software releases, including updates to FOSS stalwarts GIMP, digiKam, Krita and Blender. Major new releases were covered with dedicated articles, including Firefox 149 with free built-in VPN, the 'biggest ever release' of OpenShot video editor, the new GIMP 3.2.0 release, a bump to terminal tool Ghostty 1.3 and the Opera GX for Linux launch. A busy month, but those weren't the only app updates of note. Below, I run through other releases made in March. While these didn't get dedicated articles at the time, they offer new features, fixes or changes […]

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02 Apr 2026 10:01pm GMT

Ubuntu 26.04's sudo-rs now includes a keypress toggle for password feedback. Switch between visible asterisks and silent input without editing a config file.

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02 Apr 2026 3:56pm GMT

Raspberry Pi has announced a fresh round of price rises for its range of popular single-board computers, owing to industry-wide memory costs. It's also launched a new version of the Pi 4 with 3GB RAM to sweeten the bad news, albeit somewhat. This is the second price rise announced for Raspberry Pi in recent months. The RRP of Raspberry Pi boards were bumped in February, seeing up to $20 aded to the cost of Raspberry Pi 5 boards compared to their original price. A 16 GB Raspberry Pi 5 in the UK now costs over £290 - a 61% increase […]

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01 Apr 2026 5:02pm GMT

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS raises its minimum RAM requirement to 6GB, the first increase since 2019. Systems with less memory still work, but the experience may suffer.

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01 Apr 2026 2:52pm GMT

The "hybrid fleet" is today's reality: organizations diversify operating systems while Microsoft Active Directory (AD) remains the dominant identity "source of truth." IT administrators must ensure Linux machines, like Ubuntu desktops and servers, behave as first-class citizens in this environment. Efficient Linux management demands unified identity and policy management, ensuring that local authentication mechanisms and […]

31 Mar 2026 8:30am GMT

If you're used to accessing your Google Drive in the Nautilus file manager, a heads-up that the feature is no longer available in GNOME 50, which is the desktop version the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS uses. While GNOME Online Accounts (GOA) integration continues to allow you to sign in to your Google account to enable supported apps to access your contacts, mail and calendar data securely, the toggle to give access to files is now gone. It's that toggle that allows you to remotely mount your Google Drive in Nautilus' sidebar. If you installed the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS beta you […]

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30 Mar 2026 11:13pm GMT

The way enterprises are thinking about their infrastructure has changed. Digital sovereignty of all kinds - data sovereignty, operational sovereignty, and software sovereignty - have begun to dominate the infrastructure discussion. Today, these abstract terms have become practical concerns for platform teams. Changing regulations, geopolitical uncertainty, and growing concerns about vendor dependency are forcing organizations […]

30 Mar 2026 9:10pm GMT

30 years after its introduction, Secure Shell (SSH) remains the ubiquitous gateway for administration, making it a primary target for brute force attacks and lateral movement within enterprise environments. For system administrators and security architects operating under the weight of regulatory frameworks like SOC2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS, default SSH configurations are an "open door" that […]

30 Mar 2026 8:57am GMT

Ubuntu MATE is looking for a new maintainer, with current project lead Martin Wimpress revealing he no longer has the 'passion' for the project he once did - nor the time, it seems. Wimpress created Ubuntu MATE back in 2014, pairing Ubuntu with the traditional MATE desktop, initially a fork of the old GNOME 2 codebase and layout but now very much its own thing. Ubuntu MATE was made an official Ubuntu flavour in 2015, and its first official long-term support (LTS) release arrived the following year. There will be no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 LTS release, however, as it did […]

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29 Mar 2026 6:46pm GMT

Ubuntu engineers are debating ways to reduce the number of features present in the signed version of GRUB, the boot loader used on systems with Secure Boot enabled. Canonical engineer Julian Klode proposes dropping support for /boot on btrfs, HFS+, XFS and ZFS filesystems, alongside GRUB's JPEG and PNG image parsers, ahead of Ubuntu 26.10. Apple partition table support, LVM volume handling, all software RAID except RAID 1 and, more controversially, LUKS-encrypted /boot partitions are also on the chopping block. Many of these features are said to be 'inherited by Debian, but never tested in Ubuntu'. "The timing here is crucial", Klode […]

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28 Mar 2026 3:09am GMT

Stability, backports, and hidden risks of the bleeding edge In the modern DevSecOps world, CISOs are constantly looking for signals in the noise, and the outputs of security scanners often carry a lot of weight. A security scan that returns a "zero CVE" report often unlocks promotion to production; a single red flag can block […]

27 Mar 2026 1:24pm GMT

The modern enterprise operates in a hybrid world where on-premises infrastructure coexists with cloud services, and security threats evolve daily. IT administrators are tasked with a difficult balancing act: maintaining traditional local workflows while managing the inevitable shift toward cloud-native architectures. Identity has emerged as the new security perimeter, replacing traditional network-based defenses. At Canonical, […]

27 Mar 2026 7:29am GMT

At KubeCon Europe in Amsterdam, NVIDIA announced that it will donate the GPU Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Driver to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This marks an important milestone for the Kubernetes ecosystem and for the future of AI infrastructure. For years, GPUs have been central to modern machine learning and high-performance computing workloads, […]

24 Mar 2026 3:21pm GMT

Zero CVEs doesn't mean secure. It means unexamined. New code has zero CVEs because no one has studied it yet, and if you're rebuilding nightly from upstream, you're signing first and asking questions later. In software supply chain security, the freshest code isn't always the safest. Sometimes the most secure component in your pipeline is the one you haven't touched in eighteen months.

23 Mar 2026 1:54pm GMT