Topic: Canonical

Ubuntu’s New ARM Steam Snap is Available for Testing

Canonical's ARM64 Steam Snap brings x86 gaming to Ubuntu ARM systems via FEX emulation. Early testing shows 200+ FPS in Cyberpunk 2077. You can help test it.

9 January 2026

Ubuntu’s New Telemetry Tool to ‘Phone Home’ Monthly

Changes to Ubuntu's telemetry with the new Ubuntu Insights tool include more frequent reporting, more controls and more transparency on what's collected.

11 December 2025
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Ubuntu Pro is Now Available on Windows (For WSL, Obvs)

Canonical announce Ubuntu Pro for WSL, bringing extended security coverage to users running Linux on Windows. As on desktop, it's free for personal use.

3 December 2025
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Ubuntu Upstreams Patches to Bring Flutter Apps to RISC-V

Canonical's engineers have submitted pull requests to add RISC-V support to Google's Flutter toolkit, which Ubuntu uses to built many of its desktop apps.

23 November 2025

Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked

The Xubuntu team has shared an incident report on its October website breach. Attackers brute-forced the site to inject malware - but was anything else affected?

18 November 2025
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Ubuntu LTS Releases Now Get 15 Years of Support

Canonical has announced Ubuntu LTS releases will now be supported for 15 years from release through the Ubuntu Pro Legacy Add-on.

13 November 2025

Canonical Make It Easier to Install NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu

Canonical will package and distribute NVIDIA CUDA in the Ubuntu repositories, making it easier for developers to install with a single, simple APT command.

15 September 2025

Ubuntu’s New “Dangerous” Daily Builds – What Are They?

Ubuntu devs are creating new "dangerous" daily builds with edge channel snaps pre-installed, designed to help with testing spikes at Canonical.

18 August 2025
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Ubuntu Devs Debate Splitting Linux Firmware to Reduce Size

Ubuntu developers discuss whether to split the large linux-firmware package into smaller, vendor-specific packages to reduce its size.

6 June 2025

Canonical is Dropping Bazaar Support from Launchpad

Canonical is sunsetting Bazaar version control on Launchpad in 2025. Learn about the timeline, migration options, and what it means for Ubuntu development.

5 June 2025
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Newer Intel GPU Support Now Available on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users can make use of the Intel Graphics Preview to unlock support for newer Intel GPU features, like faster ray tracing and ML.

28 May 2025

Canonical Donating $120,000 to Open Source Projects This Year

Canonical commits to donating $120k to the open source developers building the projects and tools that help power the Ubuntu ecosystem.

14 May 2025