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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
3 May 2021

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS transitions to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM)

Cloud and server Article

This article was updated in September 2021 to reflect the new lifecycle of 16.04. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ transitions into the extended security maintenance (ESM) support phase at the end of April 2021 from its standard, five-year maintenance window for Ubuntu long term support (LTS) releases. Xenial Xerus is still supported until ...


Canonical
27 April 2021

Easily deploy and manage Mattermost on Kubernetes with the new Juju charmed operator

Canonical announcements Article

Introducing the Juju Charms Operator for Mattermost seamless application upgrades and supported features on Linux and Windows. We’re excited to announce our partnership with Canonical to build a Mattermost Operatorusing the Juju Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), making it easy to install, integrate and upgrade Mattermost. The Mattermost O ...


Canonical
22 April 2021

Ubuntu 21.04 is here

Canonical announcements Development

Ubuntu 21.04 is here, with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu. ...


Canonical
15 April 2021

(Re)introducing the Community Team

Ubuntu Article

The Ubuntu community is, and always will be, a major part of the Ubuntu project. It is one of the biggest reasons all of this (gestures around) even exists. Over the past month or so, the beginnings of a new Community team has been taking shape inside Canonical with the specific purpose of serving the ...


Canonical
8 April 2021

Kubernetes 1.21 available from Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Today, Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.21, from cloud to edge. Canonical Kubernetes support covers MicroK8s, Charmed Kubernetes and kubeadm. Starting with 1.21, moving forward Canonical commits to supporting N-2 releases as well as providing extended security maintenance (ESM) and patching for N-4 releases in ...


Canonical
6 April 2021

Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical

Canonical announcements Article

Canonical ROS ESM customers now can access a long-term supported ROS and Ubuntu environment by the Ubuntu and ROS experts. Learn more about ROS ESM. 6 April 2021: Canonical and Open Robotics announced today a partnership for Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support, as part of Ubuntu Advantag ...


Canonical
26 March 2021

Livepatch 2021-03-24 incident investigation report

Canonical announcements Article

Description A defective livepatch for kernel 4.4 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) was not caught in internal testing processes because the defect was a race condition, triggered by workload-specific behaviour, under load. The livepatch would cause the madvise system call to block indefinitely, and thus cause lockup to the processes using the ...


Canonical
25 March 2021

Canonical, Collabora, Nextcloud deliver work-from-home solution to Raspberry Pi and enterprise ARM users

Canonical announcements Article

March 25th, 2021 – Canonical, Collabora and Nextcloud announce the immediate availability of a content collaboration platform for 64bit ARM for both consumers and enterprises. Building on the prior Nextcloud Ubuntu Appliance it adds with Collabora Online, the first viable self-hosted web office solution on the popular Raspberry Pi 4 platf ...


Canonical
25 February 2021

DFI and Canonical offer risk-free system updates and reduced software lead times for the IoT ecosystem

Canonical announcements Article

Feb. 25, 2021 – DFI and Canonical signed the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. DFI is the world’s first industrial computer manufacturer to join the program aimed at offering Ubuntu-certified IoT hardware ready for the over-the-air software update. The online update mechanism of and the authorized DFI online application s ...


Canonical
17 February 2021

Canonical’s Partner Program Gets Industry Recognition for its Growth and Depth of Portfolio

Ubuntu Article

Canonical announced that its channel partner program has grown by five times in three years, expanding its global presence to several new markets. ...


Canonical
2 February 2021

Ubuntu Core 20 secures Linux for IoT

Internet of Things Article

2nd February 2021: Canonical’s Ubuntu Core 20, a minimal, containerised version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, is now generally available. This major version bolsters device security with secure boot, full disk encryption, and secure device recovery. Ubuntu Core builds on the Ubuntu application ecosystem to crea ...


Canonical
13 January 2021

Telefonica Brazil selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack for industry-leading cloud-based online charging system

Canonical announcements Article

13th January 2021 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack has been selected by Telefonica Brazil to – in a first for the region – migrate its online charging system (OCS) to its private cloud, Unica Next. The transformation project will see eight private clouds built on Charmed OpenStack, geographi ...