Section: News

Workshop by Canonical.

Canonical’s Workshop: sandboxed, reproducible dev environments

Canonical has released Workshop, a new open-source tool to create reproducible development environments with a single command. Using YAML files, the same development setup can be reproduced across different hardware and devices, reducing dependency headaches […]

27 May 2026

Raspberry Pi 6 won’t arrive before 2028 (and won’t have an NPU)

The Raspberry Pi 6 won’t be released before 2028 and it won’t feature an onboard NPU to handle AI compute tasks. Insight into plans for the Pi 6 were shared by three of the company’s […]

26 May 2026
Linux Mint on a laptop illustration.

Cinnamon desktop is getting its own, native screenshot tool

Linux Mint developers are building a new screenshot utility for the Cinnamon desktop, ahead of its next major release. The home-grown tool will give users more options when taking screenshots and will “accommodate the differences […]

25 May 2026

Canonical to shut Ubuntu Pastebin after 18 years of service

Canonical will decommission its long-running text-hosting service Ubuntu Pastebin on May 31. The company is pulling the plug as part of a broader “infrastructure modernization and migration project”, according to Canonical Community Engineer Aaron Prisk. […]

24 May 2026
Ubuntu logo behind stingray in the ocean.

Ubuntu 26.10 daily builds now available to download

Daily builds of Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’ are now available for download, as development on the distro’s next major release kicks in to gear. As the name suggests, new ISOs are produced from development code […]

24 May 2026
GNOME Sushi.

GNOME Sushi spacebar preview fix coming to Ubuntu 26.04

GNOME Sushi fans, rejoice: the spacebar preview feature is being fixed in Ubuntu 26.04. If you’re not familiar with it, GNOME Sushi is a file preview tool similar to Quick Look on macOS. Select a […]

22 May 2026
ONLYOFFICE logo

ONLYOFFICE 9.4 is out with a stricter FOSS licence

A new version of ONLYOFFICE, the open-source productivity suite, is out with a small set of improvements. The new release lands a couple of months after ONLYOFFICE suspended its eight-year Nextcloud partnership over Euro-Office, a […]

22 May 2026
Vivaldo logo on a colourful background

Vivaldi 8.0 released with ‘biggest design overhaul, ever’

A bold new look arrives in Vivaldi 8.0, the latest update to the Chromium-based web browser. The browser’s main UI elements (the bits that make a browser looks like a browser, so tabs, toolbars, panels, […]

21 May 2026
Ubuntu Core 22 for IoT an Embedded devices

Ubuntu Core 26 cuts OTA update size, enables ARM64 Livepatch

Canonical has released Ubuntu Core 26, a new long-term support (LTS) version of its immutable, snap-based OS. Among the changes Ubuntu Core 26 brings is smaller over-the-air updates, with download sizes reduced by up to […]

20 May 2026

Firefox 151: New Tab design changes, PDF merging + more

The new tab page has a (slightly) new look and a new name in Firefox 151, the newest version of Mozilla’s famous open-source web browser that begins roll out today, May 19, 2026. Now called […]

19 May 2026
CIX P1 SBCs.

Canonical share Ubuntu 26.04 concept build for CIX P1 devices

New Ubuntu Concept image for CIX P1 lets you run Ubuntu on Armv9 single-board computers, including the Radxa Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus.

18 May 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 support added to VMware Workstation Pro

VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, letting you install Broadcom's free virtual machine software on the distro and run it in a VM.

17 May 2026