Canonical released Ubuntu 26.10 on October 15, a nine-month interim release with GNOME 51, a Linux 7.3 kernel, Rust-based core utilities and Sequoia PGP for repository signature checks.
Python 3.15.0, released October 9, adds opt-in lazy imports, an immutable frozendict type and UTF-8 as the default text encoding, along with an upgraded experimental JIT compiler.
Version 0.5.144 of the tensorlake npm SDK shipped a Shai-Hulud worm variant that steals developer and cloud credentials and can wipe home directories if its stolen GitHub token is revoked.
