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Canonical’s Gold-level investment in the Rust Foundation supports the long-term health of the Rust programming language and highlights its growing role in building resilient systems on Ubuntu and beyond. AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS — March 23, 2026 (Open Source SecurityCon, KubeCon Europe 2026) — Today Canonical announced that it has joine

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is pleased to announce a new partnership with developer-focused cybersecurity company Snyk. Snyk Container, Snyk’s container security solution, now offers native support for scanning chiseled Ubuntu containers. This partnership will create a path to a more secure container ecosystem, where developers wi

Canonical introduces the beta release of MicroCloud Cluster Manager, a new way to discover, organize, and operate your MicroCloud environments from a single, unified interface.

Canonical announces that it has certified Advantech’s latest modular fanless edge IPC system, MIC-770 V3W, on Ubuntu 24.04LTS. With official Ubuntu certification, the MIC-770 V3W provides a securely-designed, stable platform with long-term compatibility ideal for AIoT and edge computing applications. An industrial-grade, high performance

Canonical is working with Microsoft Defender to improve the security of organizations’ mission-critical Linux workloads  (March 18, 2026) Today Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, announce a new security initiative with Microsoft Defender, aimed at deeply reinforcing the security offered along with Canonical’s security maintenance servic

After over a decade of running a homelab, I have learned a few difficult lessons. Although it begins as a “lab,” you inevitably end up with something you want to keep. If a service goes down for an extended period of time or you lose data, it can feel catastrophic. The anxiety of missed emails

Teams continuously deploy programmable telemetry pipelines to production, without having access to a dry-run mode. At the same time, most organizations lack staging environments that resemble production – especially with regards to observability and other platform-level services. Despite knowing the potential risks involved due to the lac

Today Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, announced that it will integrate and distribute the NVIDIA DOCA-OFED networking driver with Ubuntu.

Previewing at the event: NVIDIA CUDA support in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 architecture support in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical’s official Ubuntu image for NVIDIA Jetson Thor, upcoming support for NVIDIA DGX Station and NVIDIA DOCA-OFED, and NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 support. NVIDIA GTC 2026 is here, bringing together the technolo

Qualys discovered several vulnerabilities in the AppArmor code of the Linux kernel. These are being referred to as CrackArmor, while CVE IDs are in the process of being assigned by the Linux Kernel CVE Numbering Authority. There are eleven patches for the nine vulnerabilities and each patch is assigned a CVE IDs: CVE-2026-23268, CVE-2026-

As AI platforms grow into large-scale “AI Factories,” the real bottleneck shifts from model design to operational complexity. With expensive GPU accelerators, hardware failures and inconsistent configurations lead directly to lost throughput and reduced return on investment. While Kubernetes orchestrates workloads, it cannot fix broken ph

Certified Ubuntu 24.04 LTS images now available Canonical is pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of certified Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu Core 24 images for the Renesas RZ/G2L and RZ/G2LC 64-bit microprocessors (MPUs) platforms. With a production-ready Ubuntu version, users can benefit from enterprise-grade security, long-te

Through a strategic partnership with Canonical, Arduino’s latest product offers a seamless Linux experience for complex AI workloads in robotics, edge AI vision and more. LONDON, UK – March 9, 2026 – Today, Arduino announced the launch of the Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q, a dual-brain board designed for high-performance computing and physical actu

Increasingly, enterprises are interested in improving their level of control over their data, achieving digital sovereignty, and even building their own sovereign cloud. However, this means moving beyond thinking about just where your data is stored to thinking about the entire data lifecycle.  In this blog, we cover the differences betwe

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new generic OpenID Connect (OIDC) broker for Authd. With enterprises needing to centralise access management controls, the ability to choose your own identity solution is paramount. This new broker snap is our answer to that need, allowing Ubuntu Desktop and Server to integrate with

More and more often, infotainment systems are being developed and delivered like software, yet often they are still tested and validated using hardware-centric processes. This is far from ideal: access to devices is limited, environments are difficult to reproduce, and iteration slows down as soon as multiple teams need to work in paralle