Canonical/Ubuntu: Summit, FunOS, Accent Hold, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 13, 2026,
updated Nov 13, 2026

• Ubuntu ☛ What if your Virtual Data Room (VDR) was Android™ based?

  Matters are further complicated by the fact that all of the stakeholders have different types of devices, operating systems (OSs), and IT rules. Access must be thoroughly controlled and monitored, and more importantly, revoked when necessary. So, how can private information be made available without sharing the files themselves?

• The Register UK ☛ Canonical web services get stage fright ahead of Ubuntu Summit

  A swathe of Canonical's web services has been offline for hours, an awkward warm-up for tomorrow's Ubuntu Summit.

  Canonical's status page lists widespread disruption beginning at approximately 1100 UTC, affecting gopkg.in, Ubuntu cloud images and mailing lists, jaas.ai, the Ubuntu keyserver, Launchpad PPAs, the Livepatch API, canonical.com, Ubuntu login, maas.io, and 16 other services. Landscape is also affected. Email and the company's Discourse forums remain available.

  The Register has asked Canonical for more information but had received no response at publication time. The company suffered a DDoS attack last month, although the cause of this outage has not been confirmed.

  The timing is unfortunate. As the banner across the top of the Discourse forum page says: "The Ubuntu Summit starts tomorrow – join from anywhere!"

• Help Net Security ☛ Ubuntu certificate revocation checks arrive in curl, OpenSSL is next

  Ubuntu 26.10 ships curl with certificate revocation checking built in. The check comes from upki, a project from the rustls developers. Ubuntu’s developers ran the same curl command on both releases: Ubuntu 26.04 accepted a revoked certificate and connected, while 26.10 refused it.

  A certificate authority revokes a certificate when it should stop being trusted before it expires. OpenSSL checks a certificate chain by default, but it doesn’t check whether any certificate in that chain was revoked. That leaves curl and other non-browser tools that rely on it trusting certificates that browsers have already blocked.

• FunOS System Updates – November 2026

  Keeping your operating system updated is essential for maintaining optimal performance, stability, and security. A new round of important system updates is now available for FunOS 24.04 LTS (including 24.04.1, 24.04.2, 24.04.3, 24.04.4, and 24.04.5), FunOS 26.04 LTS (including 26.04.1), and FunOS 26.10./blockquote>

• GNOME Desktop/GTK

  • OMG Ubuntu ☛ An easier way to enter characters with accent marks on Ubuntu

    Typing accented characters on Ubuntu isn’t as easy as it is on macOS (or modern smartphone keyboards), where you just have to a key to see available characters appear in a pop-over, and then pick one. Accent Hold is a GNOME Shell extension that adds macOS-style press-and-hold behaviour. Just press and hold a letter key (e, c, etc) and accented variants and other diacritics (é è ê ë, ç ć č, etc) appear in a small pop-up, beside the text cursor. Press the matching number to pick a character, or use your keyboard arrow keys or mouse.