Blog posts tagged
"20.04 LTS"

13 posts

Lidia Luna Puerta
17 February 2025

How Ubuntu Pro + Support keeps your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS secure and stable

Article Ubuntu

Running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with ESM keeps your systems up to date with essential security patches. But when something breaks or a complex issue arises, Ubuntu Pro + Support ensures you have Canonical experts on hand to help. Supplementing ESM with support gives you extra peace of mind, keeping your infrastructure stable,...

Lidia Luna Puerta
17 February 2025

Lech Sandecki
26 October 2023

Running OpenSSL 1.1.1 after EOL? Stay secure with Ubuntu Pro.

Article Ubuntu

A few months ago, the OpenSSL Project announced the end of life of OpenSSL 1.1.1. It is used by thousands of software components included in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with many organisations relying on version 1.1.1. Rest assured that the Ubuntu security team will continue to maintain important security...

Lech Sandecki
26 October 2023

Canonical
6 August 2020

Infographic: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS

Article Canonical announcements

Today, the first point release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS went live! To celebrate, we wanted to share how Ubuntu has evolved since the first release in 2004 to where we are today with 20.04. Thanks to those in the community and our users for your contributions and joining us on this journey. Upgrade to Ubuntu

Canonical
6 August 2020

didrocks
26 May 2020

ZFS focus on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: what’s new?

Article Desktop

Ubuntu has supported ZFS as an option for some time. In 19.10, we introduced experimental support on the desktop. As explained, having a ZFS on root option on our desktop was only a first step in what we want to achieve by adopting this combined file system and logical volume manager. I strongly suggest you read

didrocks
26 May 2020

Canonical
13 May 2020

OpenStack Ussuri available on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

Canonical today announced the general availability of OpenStack Ussuri on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The most notable enhancements of today’s OpenStack upstream release are stabilisation efforts around the Open Virtual Networking (OVN) driver and the Masakari project which allow organisations to run highly...

Canonical
13 May 2020

Joshua Powers
4 May 2020

Enhanced SSH and FIDO authentication in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Joshua Powers’ blog One of the most exciting security enhancements in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) is the ability to use the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) or Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) devices with SSH. By using a second authentication factor via a device, users can add another layer...

Joshua Powers
4 May 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
4 May 2020

How to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS today

Article Desktop

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) was officially released on April 23. This is the latest Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) release, with security patches and updates available until 2025. If you are currently using an older version of Ubuntu, you may be interested in upgrading. In this tutorial, we will show how to safely upgrade

Igor Ljubuncic
4 May 2020

Alex Chalkias
24 April 2020

Ubuntu kernel 5.4: What’s new with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has just arrived. The latest LTS comes with a new version of the Linux kernel – 5.4 – which brings a lot of exciting new features, faster boot times, enhanced performance and security. Additionally, the Canonical kernel team ran benchmark tests to validate the performance improvements of the new kernel....

Alex Chalkias
24 April 2020

Canonical
23 April 2020

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arrives

Article Canonical announcements

April 23rd 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced the general availability of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with a particular emphasis on security and performance. “Accelerating open source globally is our mission. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is the new state of the art open source platform for the enterprise and the...

Canonical
23 April 2020

Rhys Davies
22 April 2020

Ubuntu 20.04 survey results

Article Cloud and server

In December 2019, we asked you what you thought were the most important things for us to include in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (now live!) 21,862 people took the survey, and have since become a part of our decision-making processes. We would like to thank each and everyone who spent their time to take this survey,

Rhys Davies
22 April 2020

Canonical
22 April 2020

2004 to 20.04 LTS: 16 years of Ubuntu mascots

Article Design

Creating a new release of Ubuntu is always a complex undertaking. At Canonical, delivering Ubuntu is our core mission, and each new version represents the culmination of months of effort from colleagues throughout our organisation – not to mention the contributions from our wider, open source community. And as our...

Canonical
22 April 2020

Canonical
21 April 2020

2004 to 20.04 LTS: Ubuntu in popular culture

Article Desktop

When we launched Ubuntu back in 2004, our mission to make well-supported, free open source software available to everyone, everywhere was a bold one – but today, Ubuntu is one of the world’s most popular operating systems. One consequence of that popularity is that Ubuntu has very much entered the public consciousness,...

Canonical
21 April 2020

Rhys Davies
17 April 2020

What is an Ubuntu LTS release?

Article Desktop

This article was updated in September 2021 to reflect the new Ubuntu lifecycle. Come April 23rd 2020, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be available. It will be the first LTS version of Ubuntu since the 18.04 release, and in this blog, I want to answer the common question, what is an LTS? For a deeper look

Rhys Davies
17 April 2020