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When a new cybersecurity vulnerability is discovered, it gets a snazzy name, media coverage, and major accolades for the researcher. But what about the person who stays up late writing, testing, and deploying the patch to fix it?

What is uPKI? Dirkjan explains what uPKI is and why it's important to check for certificate revocation at Ubuntu Summit 26.04. Watch his talk live as part of 26.04 on our YouTube channel (@UbuntuOS).

Could you process hundreds of gigabytes of data on your laptop, or tens of terabytes on a single server? DuckDB is an open source SQL database system, geared towards analytical workloads. DuckDB ships a state-of-the-art database architecture as a single package, that is available both as a command line tool and as an in-process library. Uniquely among databases, DuckDB focuses on user experience and portability, making it easy to set up almost anywhere.

What if you could manage your Ubuntu hosts the same way you manage your containerized applications? Managing Ubuntu hosts traditionally means configuration management, package updates, and drift control using tools like Puppet, Chef, or shell automation. Bootc streamlines the process. A Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project, bootc lets you define your Ubuntu systems as OCI container images and deploy them consistently across bare metal, virtual machines, edge devices, or cloud environments.

Welcome to Ubuntu Summit 26.04! In this welcome keynote, Mark Shuttleworth (CEO, Canonical), and Jon Seager (VP Engineering, Canonical), detail how Ubuntu is driving speed, safety, and community access in the era of agentic engineering. Learn how Canonical is balancing the need for rapid innovation with strict safety sandboxing through snaps, LXD, and microVMs. You'll also get a first look at what's in store for Ubuntu.

In this talk from Ubuntu Summit, Dmitry Lyfar (Engineering Manager at Canonical) introduces Workshop: a new solution for launching composable, secure, and fast development environments on Ubuntu in a single command. Learn how to create sandboxed, reproducible environments for running agents with different development stacks consistently and securely. Ubuntu Summit 26.04 is a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious.

What is Ubuntu Core? Ubuntu Core is a minimal and strictly confined variant of Ubuntu powering devices around the world. Ubuntu Core 26 now integrates with the Canonical Observability Stack, streaming device logs and metrics to centralized Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus infrastructure, deployable in the cloud or on-premise, without burdening the device's primary workloads.