The beta release of Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stringray) is now available for download – a week later than planned. Ubuntu 26.10 Beta runs on the Linux 7.3 kernel (release candidate) and ships the GNOME 51 desktop. Lower-level changes include a complete set of Rust core utilities and better handling of low-memory situations. Beta builds are not final or stable, but generally more reliable than earlier snapshots. Users and developers alike can test the new release and report any bugs they find so any fixes can land in time for the final, stable release of Ubuntu 26.10, out on 15 October […]

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Ubuntu 26.10 adds a Rust-based OpenPGP implementation, Sequoia PGP, to default installs. GnuPG is still included, but Canonical plans to 'phase' it out.

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Canonical has released a test build of Ubuntu 26.10 with early support for laptops using Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 chips. The new preview ISO is built on the Ubuntu 26.10 Beta and Canonical’s Tobias Heider says the aim is to find bugs in the upcoming release early and get feedback from users. He expects ‘most’ of the work will be present in the final release, out 15 October. Among new X2-powered devices able to run the Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept image are the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 (gen 11), HP EliteBook X G2q and the ASUS Zenbook A14/A16. Ubuntu’s support […]

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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” concept for quick tiling will be familiar to users of Windows 11 users or those who’ve tried the Tiling Shell extension for GNOME Shell – they do, broadly, the same thing. When you drag a window a layout picker with a small set of preset layouts drop zones moves in from the top of the display. You drag your window up over a layout zone (a ‘ghost’ preview of where the […]

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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 “unforeseen infrastructure issues” require pushing the release back by one week. The exact issue isn’t detailed, but Clemenceau did add that the company expects to resolve the cause shortly and that it doesn’t expect any impact on the final, stable Ubuntu 26.10 release date. That’s still set for 15 October, 2026. While it’s only a bump of a week, it does mean the wider Ubuntu community gets less than two weeks to test the Stonking […]

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