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30 April 2025

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

Article Canonical announcements

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...

Canonical
17 April 2025

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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

Lyubomir Popov
23 June 2025

Revolutionizing Web Page Creation: How Structured Content is Slashing Design and Development Time

Article Ubuntu

Co-authored with Julie Muzina A year ago, during our Madrid Engineering Sprint, we challenged ourselves to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, the need for constant design involvement in the day-to-day creation of web pages. Our strategy for achieving this is based on a smarter, more structured approach to content....

Lyubomir Popov
23 June 2025

Canonical
23 June 2025

Ubuntu Core is now available on MediaTek’s Genio platform

Article IoT

This is the first optimized Ubuntu Core image available on MediaTek’s Genio 350, 510, 700, and 1200 platforms released under the strategic partnership between Canonical and MediaTek Inc. Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and MediaTek announce the official Ubuntu Core launch of the very first optimized Ubuntu...

Canonical
23 June 2025

David Beamonte
20 June 2025

Effective infrastructure automation to reduce data center costs

Article Cloud and server

To truly reduce OpEx, you must shift your perspective from seeing operations as custom, artisanal work to one where operations are standardized, automated, and repeatable. In other words, commoditized.

David Beamonte
20 June 2025

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
19 June 2025

What are our partners building for device makers? Explore the highlights from Ubuntu IoT Day Singapore

Article Internet of Things

Our first Ubuntu IoT Day in Southeast Asia – and our first ever event in Singapore! It was long overdue, as several attendees were quick to remind us. Ubuntu has long been a quiet force in the region, powered by its rich ecosystem of innovators. More than 150 participants came together to represent Southeast Asia’s

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
19 June 2025

ebarretto
18 June 2025

Fixes available for local privilege escalation vulnerability in libblockdev using udisks

Article Ubuntu

Qualys discovered two vulnerabilities in various Linux distributions which allow local attackers to escalate privileges. The first vulnerability (CVE-2025-6018) was found in the PAM configuration. This CVE does not impact default Ubuntu installations because of how the pam_systemd.so and pam_env.so modules are invoked....

ebarretto
18 June 2025

Pedro Lazzarotto
16 June 2025

Join Canonical at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025

Article AI

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and trusted open source solutions provider, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025. Join us from June 23–26 to explore how our collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is transforming the future of enterprise IT, from virtualization and cloud infrastructure to AI/ML...

Pedro Lazzarotto
16 June 2025

Benjamin Ryzman
11 June 2025

Canonical delivers Kubernetes platform and open-source security with NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design

Article AI

Reference architectures speed up time to market for agentic AI projects To ease the path of enterprise AI adoption and accelerate the conversion of AI insights into business value, NVIDIA recently published the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory validated design, an ecosystem of solutions that integrates seamlessly with...

Benjamin Ryzman
11 June 2025

Canonical Kubernetes meets NVIDIA DOCA Platform Framework (DPF): building the future of DPU-driven infrastructure

Article Kubernetes

The combined solutions simplify infrastructure operations and accelerate time-to-value for AI, telecom, and enterprise computing workloads. Accelerate deployment and operations of BlueField DPUs with Canonical Kubernetes At GTC Paris today, Canonical announced support for the NVIDIA DOCA Platform Framework (DPF) with...

Benjamin Ryzman
11 June 2025

Giulia Lanzafame
10 June 2025

Apache Spark security: start with a solid foundation

Article Data Platform

Everyone agrees security matters – yet when it comes to big data analytics with Apache Spark, it’s not just another checkbox. Spark’s open source Java architecture introduces special security concerns that, if neglected, can quietly reveal sensitive information and interrupt vital functions. Unlike standard software,...

Giulia Lanzafame
10 June 2025

Henry Coggill
6 June 2025

What is CMMC compliance?

Article Hardening

CMMC version 2.0 came into effect on December 26, 2023, and is designed to ensure adherence to rigorous cybersecurity policies and practices within the public sector and amongst wider industry partners.

Henry Coggill
6 June 2025

Rawand Benour
5 June 2025

What if your container images were security-maintained at the source?

Article Ubuntu

Software supply chain security has become a top concern for developers, DevOps engineers, and IT leaders. High-profile breaches and dependency compromises have shown that open source components can introduce risk if not properly vetted and maintained. Although containerization has become commonplace in contemporary...

Rawand Benour
5 June 2025

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