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Canonical
11 February 2025

Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS 

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical’s Kubernetes LTS (Long Term Support) will support FedRAMP compliance and receive at least 12 years of committed security maintenance and enterprise support on bare metal, public clouds, OpenStack, Canonical MicroCloud and VMware. February 11,  2025 Today, Canonical announced a 12 year security maintenance and...

Canonical
11 February 2025


Lidia Luna Puerta
10 February 2025

How your feedback shapes the way we support open source software

Article Ubuntu

Over the past year, we’ve been busy gathering  your feedback on the redesign of our support portal. We want to make sure the portal meets your evolving needs, and delivers the best possible support experience for your open source software. Your insights drive us forward, and this year, we’ll focus on incorporating your...

Lidia Luna Puerta
10 February 2025


Carlos Bravo
7 February 2025

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS standard support is coming to an end – options for AWS Users

Article Ubuntu

As our recent blog post mentioned, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) is reaching the end of its standard support period. This means the free version will no longer receive security updates. For AWS users, you have two options: upgrade to a newer LTS version or upgrade to Ubuntu Pro to expand the security maintenance and

Carlos Bravo
7 February 2025


ijlal-loutfi
7 February 2025

Security in depth with Ubuntu: Mapping security primitives to attacker capabilities

Article Confidential computing

Cybersecurity is not about perfection. In fact, it’s more like a game of chess: predicting your opponent’s moves and making the game unwinnable for them. Like chess players, attackers are always looking for an opening, probing for weaknesses, or waiting for you to make a mistake. Therefore, the best defense isn’t a...

ijlal-loutfi
7 February 2025


Canonical
6 February 2025

Canonical achieves ISO/SAE 21434 certification, strengthening automotive cybersecurity standards

Article Automotive

Certified cybersecurity processes to help safeguard next-generation connected vehicles Canonical is proud to announce it has achieved the ISO/SAE 21434 certification for its Security Management System, following an extensive assessment by TÜV SÜD, a globally respected certification provider. This milestone highlights...

Canonical
6 February 2025


Stephanie Domas
6 February 2025

EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance: best practices for IoT manufacturers

Article Compliance

The EU Cyber Resilience Act has considerable repercussions for the IoT device manufacturers. In this blog, we explore these new regulatory requirements and give our blueprint for compliant, market-ready devices.

Stephanie Domas
6 February 2025


Stephanie Domas
6 February 2025

A CISO’s comprehensive breakdown of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA)

Article Compliance

The CRA is coming, and you need to be prepared. Depending on the Class your product falls into, there could be additional assessment, security, documentation, patching, compliance and reporting requirements on you and your teams. Find out how your digital product or service is categorised, reexamine your cybersecurity...

Stephanie Domas
6 February 2025


Henry Coggill
5 February 2025

FIPS 140-3 certified modules now available for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Article FIPS

New deployments should take advantage of the new FIPS 140-3 certified modules available with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Henry Coggill
5 February 2025


Jean-Baptiste Lallement
5 February 2025

Ubuntu available in Microsoft’s new WSL distribution format

Article Desktop

New format in Windows Subsystem for Linux makes adoption easier in enterprise environments by enabling image customization and deployments at scale

Jean-Baptiste Lallement
5 February 2025


Henry Coggill
4 February 2025

The role of FIPS 140-3 in the latest FedRAMP guidance

Article FIPS

Good news in the US federal compliance space. The latest FedRAMP policy relaxes past restrictions that prevented organizations from applying critical security updates.

Henry Coggill
4 February 2025


Philip Williams
3 February 2025

How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph

Article Ceph

Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’re talking data storage costs. Retaining and protecting data has an inherent...

Philip Williams
3 February 2025


Philip Williams
27 January 2025

How to utilize CPU offloads to increase storage efficiency

Article Ceph

Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) When storing large amounts of data, the cost ($) to store each gigabyte (GB) is the typical measure used to gauge the efficiency of the storage system. The biggest driver of storage cost is the protection method used.  It is common to protect data by either having

Philip Williams
27 January 2025


Robert Ancell
22 January 2025

Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps

Article Desktop

Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help integrate into the Linux desktop and building modern applications for Ubuntu, including our software store. Last year we announced at the Ubuntu Summit that we’ve...

Robert Ancell
22 January 2025


ilvipero
21 January 2025

Ubuntu Summit 2024 Reflections

Article Ubuntu

As we move into 2025, we wanted to reflect on the crowning event of the year: the Ubuntu Summit. Just over two months ago, we celebrated Ubuntu’s 20th birthday in The Hague, the Netherlands. We’re still buzzing from the electric atmosphere you all brought to this event, as we came together to showcase what open

ilvipero
21 January 2025