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Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin

The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. April 17, 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin,” available to download and install from ubuntu.com/download.   Ubuntu 25.04 del

Ubuntu developer images now available for OrangePi RV2: a low-cost RISC-V SBC

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, is excited to announce the availability of Ubuntu developer images for the new OrangePi RV2 RISC-V single board computer (SBC). We’re delighted to add this latest piece of hardware to our Ubuntu developer ecosystem, where our RISC-V partners build their own Ubuntu images, as we’re committed to providing

KubeCon Europe 2025: Containers & Connections with Ubuntu

It’s hard to believe that the first KubeCon took place nearly 10 years ago. Back then, Kubernetes was still in its early days, and the world was only just beginning to understand the power of container orchestration. Fast-forward to today, and Kubernetes is a fundamental part of cloud-native development, taught in universities as a key

70% of IT teams spend more than 6 hours per week on security patching – new IDC research

Open source software is a popular tool for businesses for many reasons, but this adoption has introduced new challenges in maintaining their open source software supply chain. 57% of organizations source their packages from upstream open source repositories, and 51% from ecosystem packages like pip or npm. The research shows that while 9

Rivos and Canonical partner to deliver scalable RISC-V solutions in Data Centers and enable an enterprise-grade Ubuntu experience across Rivos platforms

Rivos Inc. brings scalable, high-performance AI accelerating solutions to the Data Center, helping to turn the benefits of both AI and Data Analytics into a reality. Rivos is  working with Canonical to deliver the widely utilized Ubuntu OS on top of the Data Center-class integrated RISC-V CPU and innovative GPGPU solution from Rivos.  Thi

Ubuntu now officially supports NVIDIA Jetson: powering the future of AI at the edge

Canonical announces the General Availability of Ubuntu for the NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ for edge AI and robotics, bringing optimized performance, out-of-the-box compatibility, and an easy pathway to high-performance AI solutions for AI developers everywhere. Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced official support for the NVIDIA Jetson

Canonical to collaborate with Renesas to accelerate innovation in Enterprise AI

London, UK – Mar 6, 2025 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation, a global leader in semiconductor solutions, has joined Canonical’s silicon partner program  to deliver cutting-edge solutions tailored to meet the growing demands of edge computing and AI applications. As industries increas

Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS

Canonical’s Kubernetes LTS (Long Term Support) will support FedRAMP compliance and receive at least 12 years of committed security maintenance and enterprise support on bare metal, public clouds, OpenStack, Canonical MicroCloud and VMware. February 11,  2025 Today, Canonical announced a 12 year security maintenance and support commitment

Canonical achieves ISO/SAE 21434 certification, strengthening automotive cybersecurity standards

Certified cybersecurity processes to help safeguard next-generation connected vehicles Canonical is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO/SAE 21434 certification for its Security Management System, following an extensive assessment by TÜV SÜD, a globally respected certification provider. This milestone highlights Canonical’s leadershi

SiFive, ESWIN Computing and Canonical announce availability of Ubuntu on the HiFive Premier P550

We are pleased to announce that SiFive, ESWIN Computing and Canonical are enabling Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550, a development platform that offers a premium RISC-V development experience, an important milestone for the RISC-V development community. This collaboration ensures that developers who purchase the HiFive Premier

Meet Canonical at the Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona

Canonical is excited to return to the Mobile World Congress (MWC), taking place in Barcelona on March 3-6, 2025. Come and see us at Booth 2A90, Hall 2. Next year’s event brings attendees together around a new theme: Converge. Create. Connect. This edition will delve into topics like enterprise reinvention and cover how organizations can r

Canonical announces Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program

Today, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced its new Ubuntu Security Research Alliance Program, a free partnership between Canonical and open source vulnerability scanning organizations. The goal is to ensure vulnerability data is more transparent and standardized, while improving on-platform security for Ubuntu users through more

Canonical announces public beta of optimized Ubuntu image for Qualcomm IoT platforms

Today Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and Qualcomm® Technologies announce the official beta launch of the very first optimized image of  Ubuntu for Qualcomm® IoT Platforms. Through this beta program, developers will be able to download and use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for the Qualcomm® RB3 Gen 2 Vision kit, which runs on the Qualcomm® QCS6490

Canonical provides the ideal platform for Microsoft Azure IoT Operations

London, 19 November 2024. Canonical has collaborated with Microsoft as an early adopter partner and tested Microsoft Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes, which is notable as Microsoft today released Azure IoT Operations, a unified data plane providing significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry proce

Getting started with Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu

Introduction With the recent announcement of the release of Azure IoT Operations, Microsoft has provided its customers with a unified data plane offering significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry processing, and cloud-ingress.  Combining Azure IoT Operations with Ubuntu provides the perfect pairing to build secur

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release. MicroCloud 2.1.0 LTS features support for single-node deployments, improved security posture, and more flexibility during the initialization process.