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299 posts from 2019
Design and Web team summary – 10 May 2019
By Peter Mahnke, 19 May 2019
It was another busy iteration for the web and design team, trying to get a lot of work wrapped up before we head off to Lyon, France for our 19.10 Roadmap...
Introduction to snapcraft
By Igor Ljubuncic, 16 May 2019
First steps are always hard, especially in technology. Most of the time, you need a primer, just the right dose of knowledge, to get started with a platform....
Ubuntu Server development summary – 15 May 2019
By Chad Smith, 15 May 2019
Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team....
Ubuntu updates to mitigate new Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulnerabilities
By Alex Murray, 14 May 2019
Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) describes a group of vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, and CVE-2019-11091) in various...
Publish Your Unity Games in the Snap Store
By Alan Pope, 11 May 2019
We often feature and promote applications and games in the Snap Store and via our social media channels. Perhaps unsurprisingly, games are popular among our...
Fresh snaps for April 2019
By Martin Wimpress, 10 May 2019
April was another exciting month for the Snapcraft team with Microsoft releasing Visual Studio Code as a snap. As usual, we had hundreds of other new apps...
Shared values of Travis CI and snaps enhance integration confidence for developers
By Sarah Dickinson, 8 May 2019
Travis CI is a hosted, distributed continuous integration (CI) service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub, and free for anyone working...
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has transitioned to ESM support
By Canonical, 7 May 2019
Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) is now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to provide ongoing security patches for high and critical CVEs for UA Infrastructure...
19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ now available as optimised desktop image for Hyper-V
By Will Cooke, 7 May 2019
Running Ubuntu as a virtual machine continues to be a popular way to use the desktop. Back in September 2018 we announced the availability of optimised 18.04...
Web and Design team summary – 7 May 2019
By Anthony Dillon, 7 May 2019
This was a fairly busy two weeks for the Web & design team at Canonical. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work. Web Web is the squad that...
Canonical announces support for Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
By Canonical, 6 May 2019
May 6, 2019: Canonical today announces full support for Ubuntu on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2. “Extending enterprise support for Ubuntu from Azure...
Switch life mode to FUN with some cool Linux games
By Igor Ljubuncic, 2 May 2019
If you think of the Internet as a big flat disk balancing precariously on the shoulders of titans, one of those titans happens to be gaming. People use their...