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Canonical expands Ubuntu support to next-generation MediaTek Genio 520 and 720 platforms

Canonical is pleased to announce the early access launch of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for MediaTek’s Genio IoT platforms. Building on the companies’ strategic partnership, this release introduces optimized Ubuntu images for the brand-new Genio 520 and 720, while continuing to provide robust support for the Genio 350, 510, 700, and 1200.  The colla

What’s new in security for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?

Here’s a concise excerpt you can use:> Ubuntu 26.04 LTS significantly raises the security baseline by strengthening defaults across every layer of the system without requiring manual intervention. Key improvements include production-ready hardware-backed encryption, post-quantum–aware cryptographic defaults, modern TLS configurations, and

Intentional leadership at Canonical

In this article, Keirthana TS, a Senior Technical Author at Canonical, breaks down what leadership means to her and how she understood the power of intentional leadership through her journey at Canonical.

Ubuntu Pro comes to Nutanix bare-metal Kubernetes

Nutanix and Canonical expand partnership to offer more choice for containerized workloads Enterprise Kubernetes® is maturing into a highly flexible, multi-architecture model. As AI/ML and data-intensive workloads continue to demand maximum hardware throughput, organizations are seeking the performance of bare metal without sacrificing the

RISC-V 101 – what is it and what does it mean for Canonical?

In this blog I will look at some of the drivers for the growth of RISC-V, its value proposition and explain why supporting RISC-V is important to Canonical.

Ubuntu Summit 26.04 is coming: Save the date and share your story!

Following the incredible success of Ubuntu Summit 25.10, we are thrilled to announce that Ubuntu Summit 26.04 is officially on the horizon. If you are new to the Ubuntu community, every new release of Ubuntu comes with an Ubuntu Summit – an event that takes place twice a year and serves as a showcase of

How to manage Ubuntu fleets using on-premises Active Directory and ADSys

The “hybrid fleet” is today’s reality: organizations diversify operating systems while Microsoft Active Directory (AD) remains the dominant identity “source of truth.” IT administrators must ensure Linux machines, like Ubuntu desktops and servers, behave as first-class citizens in this environment. Efficient Linux management demands unifi

Simplify bare metal operations for sovereign clouds

The way enterprises are thinking about their infrastructure has changed.  Digital sovereignty of all kinds – data sovereignty, operational sovereignty, and software sovereignty – have begun to dominate the infrastructure discussion. Today, these abstract terms have become practical concerns for platform teams. Changing regulations, geopol


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How to Harden Ubuntu SSH: From static keys to cloud identity

30 years after its introduction, Secure Shell (SSH) remains the ubiquitous gateway for administration, making it a primary target for brute force attacks and lateral movement within enterprise environments. For system administrators and security architects operating under the weight of regulatory frameworks like SOC2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS,

The “scanner report has to be green” trap

Stability, backports, and hidden risks of the bleeding edge In the modern DevSecOps world, CISOs are constantly looking for signals in the noise, and the outputs of security scanners often carry a lot of weight. A security scan that returns a “zero CVE” report often unlocks promotion to production; a single red flag can block

Modern Linux identity management: from local auth to the cloud with Ubuntu

The modern enterprise operates in a hybrid world where on-premises infrastructure coexists with cloud services, and security threats evolve daily. IT administrators are tasked with a difficult balancing act: maintaining traditional local workflows while managing the inevitable shift toward cloud-native architectures. Identity has emerged

Canonical welcomes NVIDIA’s donation of the GPU DRA driver to CNCF

At KubeCon Europe in Amsterdam, NVIDIA announced that it will donate the GPU Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Driver to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This marks an important milestone for the Kubernetes ecosystem and for the future of AI infrastructure. For years, GPUs have been central to modern machine learning and high

Hot code burns: the supply chain case for letting your containers cool before you ship

Zero CVEs doesn’t mean secure. It means unexamined. New code has zero CVEs because no one has studied it yet, and if you’re rebuilding nightly from upstream, you’re signing first and asking questions later. In software supply chain security, the freshest code isn’t always the safest. Sometimes the most secure component in your pipeline is

Canonical joins the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member

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 partners with Snyk for scanning chiseled Ubuntu containers

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

Introducing MicroCloud Cluster Manager

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.


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