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Firefox 153 Enters Beta Testing as the Next Extended Support Release Series



Firefox 153 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with new color picker quick action, PDF improvements, support for QWACs, and new features for web developers.

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Categories: Apps, News, Firefox, Mozilla Firefox, web browser
Source: https://9to5linux.com/firefox-153-enters-beta-testing-as-the-next-extended-support-release-series Jun 17, 2026, 09:14 PM

Qt Creator 20 Open-Source IDE Released with AI Support, New Zen Mode



Qt Creator 20 open-source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is now available for download with AI support, new Zen mode for distraction-free coding, and many other enhancements.

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Categories: Apps, News, IDE, integrated development environment, Qt Creator
Source: https://9to5linux.com/qt-creator-20-open-source-ide-released-with-ai-support-new-zen-mode Jun 17, 2026, 01:33 PM

openSUSE's Agama 22 Installer Brings Usability and Accessibility Improvements



openSUSE releases Agama 22 for Tumbleweed and Slowroll with a new Appearance tool that finally lets you configure the look of the web-based installer, redesigmed header and toolbar, and more.

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Categories: Apps, News, Agama, Agama installer, openSUSE installer, openSUSE Tumbleweed
Source: https://9to5linux.com/opensuses-agama-22-installer-brings-usability-and-accessibility-improvements Jun 17, 2026, 12:59 AM

VirtualBox 7.2.10 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 7.1



VirtualBox 7.2.10 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with initial support for Linux kernel 7.1, extra fixes for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8 kernel, and other changes.

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Categories: Apps, News, virtual machine, VirtualBox, virtualization
Source: https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-2-10-released-with-initial-support-for-linux-kernel-7-1 Jun 17, 2026, 12:08 AM

Mozilla Thunderbird 152 Email Client Updates GMail OAuth to Use PKCE



Mozilla Thunderbird 152 open-source email client is now available for download with new features, improvements, and numerous bug fixes. Here's what's new!

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Categories: Apps, News, email client, Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird
Source: https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-thunderbird-152-email-client-updates-gmail-oauth-to-use-pkce Jun 16, 2026, 06:07 PM

Giada 1.5 Hardcore Loop Machine Adds New Tick-Based Audio Rendering Engine



Giada 1.5 open-source minimalistic and hardcore music production software has been released today as a major update that introduces several new features and improvements.

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Categories: Apps, News, Giada, loop machine, music production
Source: https://9to5linux.com/giada-1-5-hardcore-loop-machine-adds-new-tick-based-audio-rendering-engine Jun 16, 2026, 02:28 PM

KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What's New



KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment is now available for download with revamped Plasma Bigscreen, new Air theme, per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland session restore, and much more.

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Categories: Desktops, News, desktop environment, KDE, KDE Plasma
Source: https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-7-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new Jun 16, 2026, 12:01 PM

Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 Promises Support for the Nothing Phone, Beta Out Now



Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 enters public beta testing with support for Nothing Phone (1) and Zinwa Q25, the ability to adapt for device notches and rounded corners, improved web compatibility, and other changes.

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Categories: Distros, News, Linux phone, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Phone, Ubuntu Touch
Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-2-0-promises-support-for-the-nothing-phone-beta-out-now Jun 16, 2026, 05:56 AM

Validating real-world skills through Canonical Academy

In an increasingly volatile job market, standing out from the competition is vital. For many in the open source community, formal recognition for self-taught skills is a significant challenge. These skills are often built through hands-on hobbies, side projects, and deep community contributions. While the market is flooded with certificates and certifications, most fail to reliably measure practical execution, or fall behind the rapid pace of industry changes. Others demand a time commitment that busy professionals simply cannot afford.

Self-paced or instructor-led courses offer certificates of participation that acknowledge time spent rather than competence demonstrated. Meanwhile, traditional professional certifications often rely on dense, theoretical, multiple-choice formats. These are expensive, time-consuming, and they leave both the candidate and the employer unsure if real-world capability was actually proven. Even respected hands-on exams can suffer from diminishing industry relevance if their subject matter fails to update alongside modern, remote-first workflows.

A new standard for professional qualifications

As the company behind Ubuntu, Canonical has always focused on making complex systems accessible to everyone. When we looked at the engineering certification landscape, we saw an opportunity to design a highly credible, data-driven framework. This framework is built specifically for the needs of modern enterprises and professionals. The result is Canonical Academy.

We moved away from isolated tests to introduce structured, job-based Qualifications. Each qualification maps directly to a professional role. It is achieved by passing a series of modular, real-world exams. This design ensures deep coverage of both foundational industry standards and specific, modern operational methodologies.

To ensure our curriculum reflects absolute professional relevance, our process begins with an extensive Job Task Analysis (JTA). This analysis surveys industry experts to map exactly what employers expect from technical professionals. We established our initial focus on the System Administrator (SysAdmin) track. These fundamental operational skills form the bedrock for roles spanning from DevOps engineers to data scientists.

Built with rigor, monitored for quality

To turn these functional performance expectations into reality, we assemble diverse panels of subject matter experts (SMEs). These experts come from Canonical support, operations, core engineering, and the open source community. Together, we build realistic, multi-node lab environments and write intelligent grading scripts. Rather than forcing a single rigid solution, our grading architecture evaluates the end state of a system. This enables test-takers to showcase their personal problem-solving style and task execution efficiency.

What truly differentiates Canonical Academy is our commitment to continuous structural quality:

• LTS alignment: Exams are continuously updated and versioned alongside every Ubuntu Long Term Supported (LTS) release. This ensures your credentials remain strictly aligned with enterprise production environments.
• Psychometric rigor: Every single exam item is monitored using advanced instructional design metrics. This maintains consistent difficulty and eliminates measurement bias across different question variations.
• Accessible and secure delivery: Delivered entirely through a standard web browser, our platform combines hands-on terminal realism with secure remote proctoring. No need to clear half a day to travel to a physical testing center.

The path forward: modular learning and continuous growth

By breaking our qualifications down into modular exams, professionals can validate their skills at their own pace and budget.

Our rollout roadmap is designed to systematically validate skills across the full spectrum of systems administration:

Exam TrackFocus AreasStatusUsing Linux TerminalNavigating filesystems, file management, basic security, and command-line mechanics.Available nowUsing Ubuntu DesktopPackage management, application essentials, and desktop administration.Available nowUsing Ubuntu ServerJob control, services setup and management, server security, and basic server deploymentGeneral Availability coming soonUsing DevOps PrinciplesSystem automation and deployment, management of updates and patches, application and system monitoring, and troubleshooting connected systems.Beta coming soon

Ultimately, a qualification from Canonical Academy is more than just a badge to display on a resume. It is verifiable proof of competency engineered by the publishers of Ubuntu. Whether you are an individual aiming to prove self-taught expertise, an educator expanding student employability, or an enterprise leader looking to benchmark your engineering team's capabilities, Canonical Academy provides the pathway to validated open source skills.

Join us on the journey, explore our tracks, and take your next exam at canonical.com/academy .

In an increasingly volatile job market, standing out from the competition is vital. For many in the open source community, formal recognition for self-taught skills is a significant challenge. These skills are often built through hands-on hobbies, side projects, and deep community contributions. While the market is flooded with certificates and certifications, most fail to [...]


Categories: Canonical Academy
Source: https://ubuntu.com//blog/validating-real-world-skills-through-canonical-academy Jun 17, 2026, 04:12 PM

Virtualized Android comes to Anbox Cloud

With our latest 1.30.0 Anbox Cloud release, available today, we are introducing one of the most significant evolutions of the platform to date: support for virtualized Android. 

For the first time, Anbox Cloud can launch complete Android system images inside lightweight virtual machines, managed and orchestrated through the same Anbox APIs our users already rely on.

This new capability does not replace what Anbox Cloud already does well; it expands it. Containerized Android remains a first-class citizen, and virtualized Android adds a powerful new option when full system fidelity is required.

Two paths, one platform


We initially designed Anbox Cloud with containerized Android in mind because we consider that containers are an excellent fit for most cloud workloads that require fast and easy scaling. Indeed, containers are quick to start, they require fewer resources, and they work seamlessly with most orchestration systems. Today, containerized Android is still the ideal approach for large-scale Android application deployments for multiple use cases such as streaming, testing, automation, etc.

However, we've been seeing an increase in demand for workloads that go beyond applications and that would require full control over the Android system. Custom kernels, modified system services, vendor-specific components, or close alignment with physical devices all fall into this category. These are precisely the cases where containerization alone becomes restrictive and virtualized Android solutions, like Cuttlefish, become a better fit.

Virtualized Android fills this gap by allowing Android to run as a full system within a virtual machine (VM), while still allowing users to benefit from Anbox Cloud's existing features like instance management, automation, and scalability.

"With virtualized Android in Anbox Cloud, developers can now run complete Android system images on cloud and bare-metal infrastructure such as Google Cloud C4A-metal."  says Cedric Gegout, Canonical VP of Products. "This gives engineering teams a new way to industrialize Android: consistent environments, repeatable pipelines, higher density, and infrastructure that can be managed like any other cloud-native workload."

Teams using highly customized Android images can easily transition them to the cloud without sacrificing quality. 

Developers using Cuttlefish-based images can now enjoy a scalable environment that fits perfectly into their CI and automation workflows. Automotive OEMs, who usually deeply modify their Android Automotive OS (AAOS) images, can test entire Android systems in a consistent, cloud-native environment.

All of this takes place within the same Anbox Cloud experience that our users enjoy: the APIs, tooling, and workflows remain consistent, regardless of how Android is executed.

What really changed under the hood

This release represents a significant architectural shift.

Historically, Android in Anbox Cloud always ran as a containerized Android system. Typically, that container was hosted as an Android container running inside another container.

While this gave us flexibility at the infrastructure level, Android itself was still constrained to a container environment. With this new release, that changes.

Anbox Cloud now supports two distinct Android execution models:

• An Android container running inside a container
• A full Android virtual machine running inside a container

Representation of a key difference between virtualized Android and containerized Android 

In other words, Android is no longer always containerized. When using the virtualized option, Android runs as a complete VM, with its own kernel and system environment, enabling significantly broader compatibility with custom and modified system images.

More importantly, LXD  remains the foundation of everything. Whether Android is running in a container or a virtual machine, Anbox Cloud still relies on LXD for strong isolation, simple resource management, and orchestration, preserving our users' familiar operating model.

When is virtualized Android more suitable than containerized Android?

The addition of virtualized Android is about choosing the right tool for the job.

When you require complete control over the Android system image, virtualized Android is the best choice. This includes custom Android Open Source Project (AOSP) or AAOS builds, OEM-specific images, and modified Google reference images such as Cuttlefish. 

It's ideal for system validation, device-level testing, platform development, and any workload that relies on low-level Android behavior.

When it comes to applications rather than the operating system, containerized Android is still the best option. Indeed, for Android apps, containers continue to provide superior scaling efficiency and simplicity for high-density deployments and fast startup times.

Both approaches have clear advantages, and Anbox Cloud now supports both rather than forcing users to choose between them.

Looking ahead

This release is a major step toward our long-term vision: making Anbox Cloud the most powerful platform for running Android in the cloud, whether at the application level or at the full system level.

Containerized Android continues to deliver speed and scale, whereas virtualized Android provides compatibility and control. With both options, Anbox Cloud gives our users the freedom to select what works best for their workloads now and in the future.

If you are looking for architectural and technical details, download our latest whitepaper "From containerized Android™ to full system virtualization".

Try it now and stay tuned for further developments in our upcoming releases. For detailed instructions on how to upgrade your existing deployment, please refer to the Anbox Cloud documentation.

Further reading

Learn everything about virtualized Android with Anbox Cloud in our latest whitepaper. If you need details to get started, go through our Anbox Cloud documentation Learn more about Anbox Cloud or contact our team to discuss your use case

Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Anbox Cloud uses assets available through the Android Open Source Project.The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in theCreative Commons  3.0 Attribution License.

With our latest 1.30.0 Anbox Cloud release, available today, we are introducing one of the most significant evolutions of the platform to date: support for virtualized Android.  For the first time, Anbox Cloud can launch complete Android system images inside lightweight virtual machines, managed and orchestrated through the same Anbox APIs our users already rely [...]


Categories: Anbox, anbox cloud, Anbox Cloud Appliance
Source: https://ubuntu.com//blog/virtualized-android-comes-to-anbox-cloud Jun 17, 2026, 03:58 PM