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6 July 2026

Building an open source chain of trust: new research uncovers key blockers and ways forward

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical is pleased to share its latest research report, “The open source chain of trust.” Based on a survey of 500 DevOps professionals, the report highlights how organizations approach their open source software supply chains. While many companies are moving toward verifiable provenance and automated security workflows, internal misali ...

Canonical
30 June 2026

Canonical becomes Gold Sponsor of Trifecta Tech Foundation

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical is pleased to announce it is now a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, a non-profit that creates open source building blocks for critical infrastructure software.  Canonical has supported the foundation’s work since 2025, co-sponsoring the development of projects like sudo-rs. The new €40,000/year contribution will hel ...

Jonathan Beri
18 June 2026

So you need to add microcontrollers to your fleet: now what?

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Your Ubuntu Core fleet is running beautifully. OTA updates roll out in minutes. Every device is strictly confined, cryptographically attested, and carrying a 10 to 15 year long term support (LTS) commitment. The operational team sleeps soundly. Then the product roadmap meeting happens. The industrial floor needs vibration sensors on every ...

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seth-arnold
11 July 2026

Januscape vulnerability CVE-2026-53359 mitigations available

Ubuntu Article

Introduction A local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel was publicly disclosed on July 6, 2026. The vulnerability was assigned CVE ID CVE-2026-53359 and is referred to as Januscape. This vulnerability affects all Ubuntu releases. Neither NVD nor Kernel.org have published their own CVSS scores for this issu ...

David Beamonte
9 July 2026

Managing Ubuntu on bare metal at scale

MAAS Ubuntu tech blog

Modern infrastructure teams are expected to deliver cloud-like speed, consistency, and reliability, even when their workloads run on physical servers. Bare metal remains essential for many environments: private clouds, Kubernetes clusters, AI infrastructure, edge sites, regulated platforms, and large Ubuntu estates. But operating physical ...

Rhys Knipe
7 July 2026

Ubuntu Server: a platform made for enterprise scale

Ubuntu Article

A platform is an environment that allows software to run smoothly across the infrastructure, runtime, and application layers. The key word there is “smoothly”: a good platform connects those layers so well that you don’t notice it. That’s what Ubuntu Server has become: the essential layer between bare metal and the apps running on top, ...

Jaume Rafols
6 July 2026

Beyond safety and security: Why automotive open source demands dependability 

Automotive Article

In the traditional automotive world, teams often work in silos: the cybersecurity experts lock down the ports, the quality assurance teams hunt for bugs, and the functional safety engineers track the ISO 26262 compliance. At Canonical, we believe this fragmented workflow causes friction rather than collaboration. ...

Luci Stanescu
1 July 2026

DirtyClone Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability fixes available

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

On June 25, 2026, JFrog published their research into CVE-2026-43503, referring to the vulnerability as DirtyClone. The vulnerability had previously been responsibly disclosed to the Linux kernel maintainers and the CVE record published on May 23, 2026. The vulnerability affects multiple Linux distributions, including all Ubuntu releases. ...

Luci Stanescu
1 July 2026

pedit COW kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Mitigations are available for the Linux vulnerability with CVE ID CVE-2026-46331. The CVE ID was assigned on June 16 2026 and highlighted as a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability on June 26, 2026. Known as “pedit COW”, this vulnerability affects multiple Linux distributions, including all Ubuntu releases starting with Bionic Be ...

Kola Ojoodide
26 June 2026

Challenges designers face in open source (and how to fix them)

Design Article

Open source powers up to 90% of modern software, yet many projects lack usability. Canonical’s Design team surveyed 115 cross-functional professionals to uncover the 4 core challenges UI/UX designers face when contributing, and how maintainers can solve them. ...

Alberto Carretero
25 June 2026

Hunting a 16-year-old SQLite bug with TLA+: is dqlite affected?

DevOps Ubuntu tech blog

This article was written by Marco Manino and Alberto Carretero, dqlite team at Canonical. 1. Anatomy of a SQLite bug Recently SQLite published a new version with a fix to a long-standing bug in the way that the Write Ahead Log (WAL) is checkpointed that leads to the corruption of the database. The important aspect ...

Bertrand Boisseau
24 June 2026

Anbox Cloud on C4A metal: Android, at scale, without friction

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Why C4A metal is a great place to run Android and why Anbox Cloud makes that practical. If you’ve spent even a small portion of time working with Android development at scale, you’ve likely encountered some pinch points. The platform was built for Arm-based devices, mobile physical hardware, and tightly controlled system environments. Clo ...

Rajan Patel
23 June 2026

Canonical announces live kernel patching for Arm64

Security Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical Livepatch now officially supports Arm64, further expanding its security patching automation capabilities. For the first time, Ubuntu on an Arm64 machine can apply critical kernel updates, without service interruption or rebooting. Starting with Ubuntu Core 26 for Arm64, and for Ubuntu Core 20 and onwards for AMD64 machines, a wi ...

Jon Taylor
22 June 2026

How to use RISC-V custom instructions with Ubuntu

Silicon Ubuntu tech blog

Introduction My previous blog talked about the importance of instruction set standardization for ecosystem stability and growth through the use of profiles. And standardization is indeed important, but since one of RISC-V’s great benefits is the ability to customize the instruction set, we should also consider how to support that ability. ...

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