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Canonical and Ubuntu RISC-V: a 2025 retro and looking forward to 2026

Feb 27, 2026 By Canonical In Canonical
2025 was the year that RISC-V readiness gave way to RISC-V adoption. It’s been quite a journey. What began years ago as early architectural exploration and enablement has matured into real silicon, systems, and deployments. In particular, RVA23 provides a stable and predictable baseline we can align on with our wider ecosystem of partners. At Canonical, we’re committed to making RISC-V a viable option for anyone who wishes to adopt it.
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Unmasking the Resolute Raccoon

Feb 26, 2026 By Aaron Prisk In Canonical
You’ve almost certainly seen them… In the forest, rummaging through a dumpster, in poorly aging millennial memes. Raccoons are ubiquitous and endlessly entertaining creatures. YouTube and TikTok are full of videos documenting their clever antics and escapades. One such intrepid raccoon gained fame for making their way to the most unlikely places, from liquor stores to karate studios.
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Building quantum-safe telecom infrastructure for 5G and beyond

Feb 24, 2026 By Benjamin Ryzman In Canonical
At MWC Barcelona 2026, coRAN Labs and Canonical are presenting a working demonstration of a cloud-native, quantum-safe telecom platform for 5G and beyond 5G networks. This is not a conceptual exercise. It is a full 5G System (5GS) deployment with post-quantum cryptography embedded across the stack – from radio access to core, from transport interfaces to orchestration and public key infrastructure (PKI).
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Anbox Cloud 1.29.0: what's new?

Feb 20, 2026 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
In this video, the Anbox team covers new features and changes in their latest 1.29.0 release: What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency. Tags: Trademark notice Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Anbox Cloud uses assets available through the Android Open Source Project.
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Predict, compare, and reduce costs with our S3 cost calculator

Feb 18, 2026 By Philip Williams In Canonical
Previously I have written about how useful public cloud storage can be when starting a new project without knowing how much data you will need to store. However, as datasets grow over time, the costs of public cloud storage can become overwhelming. This is where an on premise, or co-located, self-hosted storage system becomes advantageous: it provides the greatest range of benefits, including cost, performance, security, and data sovereignty.
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A year of documentation-driven development

Feb 17, 2026 By Yanisa Haley Scherber In Canonical
For many software teams, documentation is written after features are built and design decisions have already been made. When that happens, questions about how a feature is understood or used often don’t surface until much later. A little over one year ago, our team began to recognize this pattern in our own work. Features generally functioned as intended but were difficult to use or explain. Documentation lagged behind releases.
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The foundations of software: open source libraries and their maintainers

Feb 13, 2026 By Isobel Kate Maxwell In Canonical
Open source libraries are repositories of code that developers can use and, depending on the license, contribute to, modify, and redistribute. Open source libraries are usually developed on a platform like GitHub, and distributed using package registries like PyPI for Python and npm for JavaScript. These repositories contain pre-written, re-usable code that developers use to add elements or features within their software projects.
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What is RDMA?

Feb 11, 2026 By Benjamin Ryzman In Canonical
Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data between servers is starting to become the most significant factor in overall performance. Remote Direct Memory Access, or RDMA, is one of the technologies reshaping how that data moves, and it forces a rethink of some long-held assumptions in data centre networking. This article is the first in a short series.
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Meet the Maintainers: Ned Batchelder (coverage.py) - the story behind Python code coverage

Feb 11, 2026 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
Ned Batchelder (nedbat), creator and long-time maintainer of coverage.py, joins Push to Talk | Meet the Maintainers to share his path into programming and open source and the real story behind one of Python’s most popular testing tools. We talk about the journey to coverage.py, the turning points that shaped it, and why the measurement of the library is only 94%. What's inside? Surprise us: how are you using coverage.py?
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Building new revenue streams: 3 strategic cloud opportunities for telcos in 2026

Feb 10, 2026 By Isobel Kate Maxwell In Canonical
The telecommunications industry is at a turning point: telcos are seeking ways to turn innovation into new opportunities. Looking at the data, the desire is easy to understand. In 2023, PWC projected that the sector’s annual growth rate would slow significantly between 2024 and 2028.
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SQL Server 2025 is generally available on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Feb 6, 2026 By Jehudi In Canonical
Microsoft has announced the General Availability (GA) of SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, starting with the CU1 release. This milestone allows enterprises to deploy mission-critical workloads on our latest Long Term Support release, benefiting from predictable stability and up-to-date kernels.
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What is the Open Container Initiative?

Feb 5, 2026 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical
In this video, we explain the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and how open, vendor-neutral standards make containers portable and interoperable across platforms, tools, and environments. We cover what OCI is, why OCI compliance matters, and how OCI defines the core building blocks of the container ecosystem: container images, runtimes, and distribution.
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AI meets SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu

Feb 4, 2026 By Mohamed Wadie Nsiri In Canonical
Since 2016, when Microsoft announced its intention to make Linux a first class citizen in its ecosystem, Canonical and Microsoft have been working hand in hand to make that vision a reality. Ubuntu was among the first distributions to support the preview of SQL Server on Linux. Ubuntu was the first distribution offered in the launch of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and it remains the default to this day. Ubuntu was also the first Linux distribution to support Azure’s Confidential VMs.
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AWS IoT Greengrass comes to Ubuntu Core

Feb 3, 2026 By Canonical In Canonical
London, February 3, 2026 — Canonical and AWS are pleased to announce the release of the new snap for AWS IoT Greengrass, making the deployment of your IoT solutions easy and seamless all the way from silicon to the cloud. With the AWS IoT Greengrass agent now available as a snap package from the Canonical Snap Store, Ubuntu Core has become the ideal operating system for all your AWS IoT edge workloads and data ingress.
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