Jon Seager

Ubuntu Discourse

Try the `upki` preview for Ubuntu!

The development of upki has been steadily progressing over the past few months. Since my last update, the project has released a beta version of the CLI tool and library, and the Ubuntu Foundations team has released a preview that users of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.10 development snapshots can try out. The preview is still experimental, but it contains both the upki client packages, and the initial OpenSSL integration. An instance of the upki mirror which serves the CRLite filter data is b

Ubuntu Discourse

Ntpd-rs: it's about time!

I am thrilled to announce the next target in our campaign to replace core system utilities with memory-safe Rust rewrites in Ubuntu. In upcoming releases, Ubuntu will be adopting ntpd-rs as the default time synchronization client and server, eventually replacing chrony, linuxptp and with any luck, gpsd for time syncing use-cases. ntpd-rs is a full-featured implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP), written entirely in Rust. Maintained by the Trifecta Tech Foundation as part of Project P

Hachyderm.io

Hachyderm.io

Ubuntu Discourse

From LTS to LTS: two years of Foundations work on Ubuntu

Covering the journey from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) The Ubuntu Foundations team manages the fundamental components of the OS: the hardware interface, package assembly, and toolchain maintenance. Our work over the last two years has spanned three interim releases: Ubuntu 24.10, 25.04, and 25.10. These cycles served as the primary environment for developing and validating the features we are now delivering in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Here’s a tour of what’s c

Canonical

Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon | Canonical

Experience Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with kernel-to-cloud optimizations and hardened security from Canonical. Explore the highlights to see what's new

Ubuntu release notes

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS summary

If you’re upgrading from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), you receive the changes that happened in all the interim releases between Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS, as well as the most recent change...

Hachyderm.io

Ubuntu Discourse

Introducing Frontdesk, a first-pass triage bot for sponsoring requests

Introducing Frontdesk: earlier feedback on sponsoring requests At Debcrafters we’re always looking for ways to make Ubuntu’s contribution processes smoother and give people a better experience when they show up with a patch, a merge, or an SRU. One recurring pain point is sponsoring. Contributors without upload rights depend on a relatively small group of sponsors and reviewers to look at their merge proposals and bugs, and that group is busy — juggling their own work, other reviews, and e

Ubuntu Discourse

Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 13 - The balance of innovation and reliability

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: The balance of innovation and reliability Ubuntu Server is well-established as a reliable server Operating System. But let’s be honest, there’s often an assumption that “reliable” is mutually exclusive with “glamorous”, that something dependable must also be boring. The rock-solid stability underpinning much of modern technology is invisible by design. It runs beneath the surface, enabling your services, platforms, and ideas built on top of it. Nobody notices it because it neve

Ubuntu Discourse

Improving Ubuntu Infrastructure Status Reporting

Hey everyone, Recently, we’ve experienced a few infrastructure reliability issues that impacted various Ubuntu services. We know firsthand how frustrating it is when the tools you need to do distro work are unresponsive. What makes these situations even more annoying is our current lack of clear, public-facing reporting and dashboards. Without a centralized way to surface the state of our infra it is that to know what is broken, what is degraded, and what is currently being worked on. This rec

Charmhub

How Charm Tech combats Hyrum’s Law

Instead of “move fast and break things”, the Charm Tech team focuses on considered design and stability. That doesn’t mean we don’t make improvements, but when we do, we’re careful to do so in a way that doesn’t break our existing users. We aim to be boring technology. A large part of this is ensuring that when Ops (and Jubilant and other tools) get new functionality, we add it in a backwards compatible way. We also think a lot about how we might make future changes when designing APIs (and CLI

Ubuntu Discourse

What makes a craft

If you’ve ever built a snap with Snapcraft or a rock with Rockcraft, you’ve likely engaged with the documentation and forums along your path to a working artifact. We put a lot of time into providing means for developers to learn how to package their software. But we’ve put comparatively little time into describing the structure of the craft apps themselves. In this post, I’d like to shed some light on the philosophy across the growing list of Canonical packaging tools, including Snapcraft, Cha

Hachyderm.io

Charmhub

Seamless PostgreSQL Deployment on RISC-V with Juju and Ubuntu

Seamless PostgreSQL Deployment on RISC-V with Juju and Ubuntu This article demonstrates the great and simple user experience of deploying PostgreSQL on RISC-V CPU architectures using Juju, Canonical’s open source control plane, and Ubuntu’s diverse packaging options. Drawing inspiration from the talk “PostgreSQL on RISC-V Apt/Snap/Charm/Rock/Juju” presented by Alex Lutay at UbuCon Asia/Africa, we explore how Juju, Charms, and Rocks provide a powerful, model-driven approach for deploying and m...

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Brewlog

Bonita Springs Wush Wush at WatchHouse Tower Bridge — Brewlog

Bonita Springs Wush Wush by WatchHouse at WatchHouse Tower Bridge, London.