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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

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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....

Canonical
30 April 2025

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Canonical
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...

Canonical
23 April 2025

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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

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

Lyubomir Popov
23 June 2025

Improving our web page creation workflow: 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

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