Calling all creative critics, gallery gurus and art afficionados! Help us make the #QuestingQuokka release shine ✨ For every Ubuntu release, the community chooses the winning wallpapers. It’s time to cast your vote in the wallpaper competition! Head over to Discourse and pick your favorites:

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🗳️ VOTE - Questing Quokka Wallpaper Competition

🗳 It’s time to vote for your favorite Questing Quokka Wallpapers! Thank you to all the incredible artists, photographers and pixel wizards who...

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Canonical was at #GUADEC2025 in Brescia, Italy! 🇮🇹🧡 We had an incredible time connecting with the GNOME community, discussing upstream collaboration, Ubuntu desktop updates, and celebrating all things open source. Thanks – or grazie – to the wonderful community who dropped by our booth, joined our talks, or just stopped for a chat. Alla prossima! 🔗

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Event Report - GUADEC 2025

GUADEC is the GNOME community’s annual conference, it brings together hundreds of contributors and users from all over the world. This year, GUA...

It’s a bird! It’s plane! It’s…a deadline to submit your Questing Quokka wallpaper! 🪄🎨 Submissions close on August 11, 2025. Our cheerful little marsupial is counting on your creativity to help this release shine. Submit your design here:

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Questing Quokka 25.10 Wallpaper Competition

On an artistic quest This happy little marsupial is smiling because he knows his release is just around the corner and he’s got a community full ...

From idea to package, Ubuntu makes it easier to build, test, and ship your software. 📦🛠️ Learn how you can craft your software here:

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Crafting Your Software

Packaging software is notoriously tricky. Every language, framework, and build system has its quirks, and the variety of artifact types — from De...

Calling out to our community of artisans! It's time to help make the Ubuntu 25.10 release sparkle. ✨🎨 Bust out those paint brushes, charge up those drawing tablets, and dial in those digital cameras because it’s Ubuntu Wallpaper Competition season once again! Submission window closes on August 11.

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Questing Quokka 25.10 Wallpaper Competition

On an artistic quest This happy little marsupial is smiling because he knows his release is just around the corner and he’s got a community full ...

Grab some popcorn and your circle of friends because… (drumroll please! 🥁) This October 23-24, you’ll be able to livestream Ubuntu Summit 25.10 with your community! We’re calling it Ubuntu Summit Extended. 🌍✨ Swipe the cards to learn more about what the Ubuntu Summit Extended is, and how to organize your own watch party to celebrate. 🔗 Sign up to host your Ubuntu Summit Extended:

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🔗 Learn more about Ubuntu Summit 25.10:

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Ubuntu Summit 26.04 | Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Summit is a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious. We invite all experts, builders, engineers, tinkerers, designers and dream...

Calling all open source contributors! 🔊 Canonical has launched the Starcraft Bounties Program, a new initiative inviting you to tackle significant technical challenges and shape the future of core development tools like Snapcraft, Charmcraft, Craft Parts, and the Craft CLI. Ready to contribute and deepen your expertise in advanced open source projects? Find more details here:

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Build the future of *craft: announcing Starcraft Bounties! | Ubuntu

Our commitment to building a thriving open source community is stronger than ever. We believe in empowering impactful contributions, and today, we�...

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Canonical is introducing Debcrafters, a new team dedicated to maintaining the health of the Ubuntu Archive. 🤝 Whether you're an experienced Debian Developer, a maintainer from another Linux distribution, or an engineer starting your open source journey, Debcrafters offers a unique chance to learn, grow, and make a meaningful impact on the world’s most widely deployed Linux. Learn more about their mission and how they're supporting other distributions beyond Ubuntu:

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Introducing Debcrafters

Earlier this year, Canonical’s Ubuntu Engineering organisation gained a new team, seeded with some of our most prolific contributors to Ubuntu. D...

Missed #UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2025? We’ve got you covered. Catch the highlights and relive the excitement! From hands-on workshops to networking with community members, UbuCon was a blast. We also had a great time connecting with our old friends from Slimbook, DeepComputing, KDE, OpenSearch, and many more amazing projects. 📍 Málaga, Spain

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Event Report - UbuCon Europe @ OpenSouthCode 2025

This year the Ubuntu community is traveling around the world, spreading the word of the orange side of Linux. UbuCon Europe, as announced in this D...

One of our goals was making Network Time Security (NTS) the default in Chrony, not just for Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin, but beyond. We’ve now reached that milestone as part of the ongoing development of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka. Read more about it in our Ubuntu Server Gazette:

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Ubuntu Server Gazette - Issue 5 - Things to keep safe: Your circle of friends and your time!

Back in Gazette issue 1 I outlined that Canonical now provides an NTS-enabled NTP server backend, that you can use it with chrony as the client, an...

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