Canonical has released Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed Stonking Stingray, built on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base. The update adds Rust-based coreutils, post-quantum-ready package signing, TPM-backed full-disk encryption, Linux kernel 7.3, GNOME 51, RISC-V desktop images, and a new opt-in local speech-to-text feature called Myna. Companion flavors including Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu are also launching today, each with nine months of maintenance support.
lists.ubuntu.com
· 2026-10-15
Ubuntu has finished replacing the traditional GNU coreutils package with a Rust-based implementation across its system utilities. This marks a major step in the distribution's broader effort to rewrite core system components in memory-safe Rust rather than C.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-16
Canonical's Ubuntu 26.10 completes its migration to Rust-written core utilities after resolving TOCTOU security flaws that had forced cp, mv and rm to remain on their GNU versions in 26.04 LTS. The release, codenamed 'Stonking Stingray', now ships a full uutils suite covering tools like ls, cat, chmod and du.
omgubuntu.co.uk
· 2026-09-14
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