--- title: What’s new in Ubuntu 18.04 and OpenStack Queens description: Canonical have recently released 18.04 LTS to continue Ubuntu’s positioning as a reference cloud for digital transformation workloads. Ubuntu is at the heart of the world’s largest OpenStack clouds, both public and private, in key sectors such as finance, media, retail and telecommunications. Join our upcoming webinar to discover how Ubun […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/whats-new-in-ubuntu-18-04-and-openstack-queens?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 27 April 2018 # What’s new in Ubuntu 18.04 and OpenStack Queens [18.04](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/18-04) [cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/cloud) [Enterprise](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/enterprise) [finance](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/finance) [Hybrid & Multi cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/hybrid-multi-cloud) [LTS](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/lts) [Media](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/media) [Retail](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/retail) [Telco](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/telco) [Telecommunications](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/telecommunications) --- Share the article Canonical have recently released 18.04 LTS to continue Ubuntu’s positioning as a reference cloud for digital transformation workloads. Ubuntu is at the heart of the world’s largest OpenStack clouds, both public and private, in key sectors such as finance, media, retail and telecommunications. Join our upcoming webinar to discover how Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and OpenStack Queens will benefit the enterprise. [Register For Webinar](https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/316587) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Building new revenue streams: 3 strategic cloud opportunities for telcos in 2026](https://canonical.com/blog/new-telco-cloud-opportunity) PWC claimed the ‘fundamental challenge’ behind slowing growth is that telecom’s ‘core products and services’ are ‘becoming commodities.’ The way forward lies in modernizing and... [Isobel Kate Maxwell](https://canonical.com/blog/author/iso-maxwell) 10 February 2026 [### The next era of telco clouds: get open infrastructure choice with Sylva and Canonical Kubernetes](https://canonical.com/blog/the-next-era-of-telco-clouds-get-open-infrastructure-choice-with-sylva-and-canonical-kubernetes) Achieving vendor neutrality in telco clouds requires an infrastructure layer that respects open standards, without wrapping them in rigid platform layers. By combining upstream... [estelacarmona](https://canonical.com/blog/author/estelacarmona) 11 June 2026 [### Run agentic workloads on Arm and Ubuntu](https://canonical.com/blog/run-agentic-workloads-on-arm-and-ubuntu) In the lead-up to Ubuntu Summit 26.04, Canonical and Arm are collaborating to certify the new Arm AGI CPU on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon). Learn what this means for... [Youssef Eltoukhy](https://canonical.com/blog/author/usf197) 26 May 2026 [### Deploy your Spring Boot application to production](https://canonical.com/blog/deploy-spring-application-to-production) In this article we walk through the steps required to deploy a Spring Boot application to production using Juju and Kubernetes. The goal is to showcase the integration of the... [Javier de la Puente](https://canonical.com/blog/author/javierdelapuente) 13 January 2026