Speech To Text is an important accessibility feature, but it’s also a useful productivity tool for anyone who finds it easier to speak than to type. Today I’m excited to introduce Project Myna, a new initiative to bring speech to text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop. Named after the myna bird, known for its ability to mimic human speech, the project aims to deliver a dictation experience that feels like a natural part of the desktop while respecting user privacy and running entirely on local hardwa...

Hello Ubuntu Desktop community, With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” now shipped and settling in, the Desktop Engineering team is already deep into the next development cycle. Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” arrives in October 2026. While non-LTS releases often focus on delivering new capabilities, they also play another important role: laying the foundation for the next LTS release. Much of the work happening in Ubuntu 26.10 is part of a broader vision for Ubuntu 28.04 LTS. That visi...

A GTK4/libadwaita Git client for the GNOME desktop, written in Rust with Relm4.

If you’re upgrading from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), you receive the changes that happened in all the interim releases between Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS, as well as the most recent change...

Completely drops the whole x11 backend. Still an open question when to merge this but also I have to figure out what is needed to change...