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Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' Ships With GNOME 51 and Rust Coreutils

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) is available for download, with an upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, GNOME 51, TPM-backed full disk encryption and Rust coreutils.

AI News Feed · 2026-10-16 07:39

The distribution is built on the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series and ships with the GNOME 51 desktop environment.

On the security side, Ubuntu 26.10 adds TPM-backed full disk encryption (FDE) support for computers that lack a hardware root of trust. The Settings application has been updated to show whether a given computer is certified for Ubuntu. System-wide controls now let users disable Ubuntu Insights data collection, and the release includes better integration with Microsoft Entra ID. The coreutils set is now 100 percent Rust.

The App Center receives several changes. A unified app-details view covers both Snap and Debian packages, and a dedicated Drivers page allows users to review the available graphics drivers, including NVIDIA driver branches. The App Center also supports installing codecs for one-time playback when a media file uses a codec that is not already installed on the system.

Ubuntu 26.10 also introduces Myna, an optional AI-powered speech-to-text tool that processes data locally rather than in the cloud.

The description of the release comes from the 9to5Linux report that Slashdot cited on October 15; no other source material for the release was provided.

【Editor's Summary】Ubuntu 26.10, code-named Stonking Stingray, was released on October 15, 2026, with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, GNOME 51 and nine months of updates through July 2027. It extends TPM-backed full disk encryption to machines without a hardware root of trust, adds controls for disabling Ubuntu Insights data collection and introduces a locally processed speech-to-text tool called Myna.