The Ubuntu 26.10 beta, which had been due on 24 September, has been pushed back to 1 October. Canonical's Matthieu Clemenceau, announcing the delay, said

Ubuntu 26.10 offers a new way to tile your apps, with a layout picker sliding in from the top of the screen when you move a window. This "dropzone"

Ubuntu's new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn't officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and

Ubuntu kernel security updates will arrive on a near-weekly basis, as Canonical tries to keep pace with an 'explosion' of issues being detected through AI.

TMOG is a cross-platform task manager for Windows, macOS and Linux created by ex-Microsoft developer Dave Plummer.

Obscura VPN has launched a native Linux app, giving desktop users an easier way to access it (without wrangling Wireguard configuration files). Linux

Convey is a new Linux email client based on the code of Geary, remade with a GTK4/libadwaita UI and support for Microsoft 365 accounts.

The latest update to Calibre, the popular open-source ebook manager, features an AI-powered writing game. Calibre v9.15's "Create Your Own Adventure"

GNOME 51 is out, bringing FIDO2 passkey login, a Reduced Motion option and frame scheduling changes that make UI animations and scrolling feel smoother.

Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' is getting a newer kernel than planned. Canonical has switched its target from Linux 7.2 to Linux 7.3.

LibreOffice 26.8 was download more than 1 million times in its first week of release, which The Document Foundation say is the highest first-week figure

Audacity 4.0 has been released with a new Qt user interface, a new clip editing model and project file format – as well as a swathe of smaller

AI-powered voice typing is coming to Ubuntu in Myna, a speech-to-text feature that lets you talk into any valid text field. It's still a work in progress,

Mozilla Firefox 155 is released, making Smart Window available in USA, Canada & France. Plus, blocked tracker counts, container reordering and Linux fixes.

Calibre, the open-source ebook manager, now lets you generate AI ebook covers for content in your library, using genre prompts or custom ones.

I recently re-encountered my favourite 'error' dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro's App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI

If you've been eyeing up one of PINE64's Linux-friendly single-board computers, phones or tablets, now would be a good time to buy one. The open-hardware

Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, adding cache-aware scheduling, ext4 filesystem performance boosts and a slew of new and improved hardware drivers for

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Google Chrome now has an official Arm64 Linux build, including for the Raspberry Pi, available via Google's Debian and RPM repos with Widevine DRM support.

More widgets are coming to Firefox's New Tab page, including an interactive crossword puzzle powered by the AI news reader Particle. The mini crossword

Mozilla has released Firefox 153 with built-in containers, QR code generation and more quick actions in the address bar. This is the final "monthly"

Ubuntu 26.10 is replacing its D-Bus implementation for the first time since 2004, swapping dbus-daemon for dbus-broker – a change end-users are unlikely

Ubuntu is working on speech-to-text AI transcription so you can talk to type. It's powered by project Myna. Here's how it'll work and why it's adding it.

My journey inside the world of LARPing, where hustlebros pretend to be rich for TikTok.

Canonical has released Workshop, a new open-source tool to create reproducible development environments from a single YAML configuration file. The same

If you've been itching to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS from Ubuntu 25.10, good news: the upgrade path is now open (as of 14 May, 2026). Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

If you're having trouble accessing the Ubuntu website, the Snap store or Launchpad then you're not alone: Canonical's websites are currently facing a

AI features are coming to Ubuntu in 2026, though Canonical has made clear that the distro is not becoming an AI product. In a community post, Jon Seager,

If you plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute Raccoon' from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, you're going to inherit two years worth of improvements. As an

Ubuntu has announced the codename for Ubuntu 26.10 is… "Stonking Stingray". As codenames go it's certainly unique. The distro gives each release a

Skyscraper is a free, open-source Bluesky terminal client written in Rust. Browse, post and reply without leaving the command line - here's how to run it on Ubuntu.

Kagi's privacy-focused Orion browser has reached public beta on Linux. Here's what works, what doesn't and how to install it on Ubuntu.

Firefox's new AI-powered 'Smart Window' feature is taking shape in development builds – I gave it a hands on in the latest v149.0b7 beta (on macOS).

A new-look Firefox is on the way, with Mozilla designers working on a 'Nova' redesign that introduces more curves and colour. First reported by tech

February 2026 delivered a fresh batch of Linux app releases, with updates to VLC, GIMP, Vivaldi, and VirtualBox among the many that filtered out. I

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will split its 600MB linux-firmware package into 17 vendor-specific packages to reduce bandwidth and download sizes of firmware updates.

Linux 6.19 brings native Vulkan support to older AMD Radeon GPUs, hardware-accelerated HDR via the DRM Colour Pipeline API and ext4 performance boosts.

Opera confirms it's working on a Linux version of Opera GX, its gaming-focused browser. No release date yet, but after years of users asking it's happening.

An alpha release of Orion for Linux, a Webkit-based web browser developed by the search engine Kagi is out for testing – though only for Orion+ subscribers.