Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: AI Toolchains in the Repo, Security in the Defaults

Last week, on April 23, 2026, Canonical released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" . The interesting part is not GNOME 50 or the normal LTS cadence. It is that Ubuntu 26.04 moves more of the hard platform work into the supported distro path: TPM-backed full-disk encryption , CUDA via apt , ROCm in Ubuntu's repositories , Wayland with NVIDIA support , and Rust-based sudo and core utilities . For…