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30 April 2025

Canonical announces first Ubuntu Desktop image for Qualcomm Dragonwing™ Platform with Ubuntu 24.04

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This public beta enables the full Ubuntu Desktop experience on the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors and complements existing Ubuntu Server support with significant enhancements. Together, these updates provide a powerful development environment for building next-generation AI-driven edge applications....

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30 April 2025

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23 April 2025

Canonical and Ampere announce AmpereOne® SoC certification and other partnership milestones

Article AI

Ampere and Canonical are pleased to celebrate new milestones in their ongoing partnership including the completion of Canonical’s System-on-Chip (SoC) certification on AmpereOne®, and the extension of the partnership into the AI Platform Alliance, a strategic group of full stack ecosystem partners that provide...

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23 April 2025

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17 April 2025

Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

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The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. 17 April 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin,” available to download and install from...

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17 April 2025

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Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 July 2025

JetPack 4 EOL – how to keep your userspace secure during migration

Article Ubuntu

NVIDIA JetPack 4 reached its end-of-life (EOL) in November 2024, marking the end of security updates for this widely deployed stack. JetPack 4 has driven innovation in countless devices powered by NVIDIA Jetson, serving as the foundation of edge AI production deployments across multiple sectors. But now, the absence of...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 July 2025

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Source to production: Spring Boot containers made easy

Article Cloud and server

This blog is contributed by Pushkar Kulkarni, a Software Engineer at Canonical. Building on the rise in popularity of Spring Boot and the 12 factor paradigm, our Java offering also includes a way to package Spring workloads in production grade, minimal, well organized containers with a single command. This way, any...

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Spring support available on Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

This blog is contributed by Vladimir Petko, a Software Engineer at Canonical. The release of Plucky Puffin earlier this year introduced the availability of the devpack for Spring, a new snap that streamlines the setup of developer environments for Spring on Ubuntu. In this blog, we’ll explain what devpacks are and...

Massimiliano Gori
2 July 2025

Rajan Patel
2 July 2025

Live Linux kernel patching with progressive timestamped rollouts

Article Security

In internet connected environments, where Ubuntu instances can reach livepatch.canonical.com, Livepatch Client supports timestamp-based rollout configurations. Organizations can implement controlled and predictable update pipelines from staging to production environments, without the hassle of deploying a self-hosted...

Rajan Patel
2 July 2025

Canonical
1 July 2025

Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21

Article Cloud and server

Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly optimized for size and security, containing only the dependencies that are strictly necessary. They are available for both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures and...

Canonical
1 July 2025

Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK

Article Canonical announcements

Java has long been the most popular language for software development in large enterprises, with 90% of Fortune 500 companies using it for backend development, particularly in industries like finance, healthcare, and government. Java developers, more than most, are tasked with balancing the implementation of new...

Canonical
1 July 2025

Rajan Patel
1 July 2025

Update Livepatch Client for the newest kernel module signing certificate

Article Security

The kernel engineering team at Canonical has generated a new module signing certificate on May 16, 2025, and it is embedded in all Ubuntu kernels published after that date. Livepatch Client version 10.11.2 published on June 13, 2025 includes this new certificate. Livepatch Client 10.11.2 or greater is required to...

Rajan Patel
1 July 2025

Daniele Procida
30 June 2025

How to get a job at Canonical

Article People and culture

If you’re interested in applying for a role at Canonical, it can help to have some insider guidance. A lot has been written on social media about Canonical and our hiring processes. Some of it is even true. I share responsibility for what we do, because I am a hiring lead at Canonical. Hiring leads

Daniele Procida
30 June 2025

Rajan Patel
27 June 2025

How is Livepatch safeguarded against bad actors?

Article Security

What safeguards the Livepatch security patching solution against bad actors and malicious code masquerading as an update? Learn about Secure Boot and module signing.

Rajan Patel
27 June 2025

Giulia Lanzafame
26 June 2025

Accelerating data science with Apache Spark and GPUs

Article Data Platform

Apache Spark has always been very well known for distributing computation among multiple nodes using the assistance of partitions, and CPU cores have always performed processing within a single partition. What’s less widely known is that it is possible to accelerate Spark with GPUs. Harnessing this power in the right...

Giulia Lanzafame
26 June 2025

David Beamonte
26 June 2025

Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation

Article Cloud and server

Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make your infrastructure greener, without sacrificing performance or flexibility.

David Beamonte
26 June 2025

ilvipero
26 June 2025

Build the future of *craft: announcing Starcraft Bounties!

Article Ubuntu

Our commitment to building a thriving open source community is stronger than ever. We believe in empowering impactful contributions, and today, we’re excited to launch a new pilot initiative that puts this vision directly into your hands: the Starcraft Bounties Program. This isn’t just about small fixes; it’s an...

ilvipero
26 June 2025

Rajan Patel
26 June 2025

NodeJS 18 LTS EOL extended from April 2025 to May 2032 on Ubuntu

Article Ubuntu

Canonical provides up to 12 years of security patching for open source software packaged and published through Ubuntu Pro repositories. These security commitments differ from upstream open source software maintainers, like the OpenJS Foundation.

Rajan Patel
26 June 2025

Canonical
25 June 2025

Native integration now available for Pure Storage and Canonical LXD

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, and Pure Storage, the IT pioneer delivering enterprise-grade all-flash storage, have partnered to introduce a native integration between LXD and Pure Storage FlashArray. This collaboration allows organizations to combine open source virtualization with industry-leading block storage...

Canonical
25 June 2025

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