Jon Seager, Canonical VP of Engineering Canonical/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The latest long-term support edition of Ubuntu 26.04 is here. This version is safer and faster than ever. It includes serious AI tool improvements. Canonical's new Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support (LTS) , which arrives on April 23, 2026, isn't trying to be flashy for its own sake. This version is trying to be hard to break, easy to trust, and modern enough to matter for the next decade and a half. At a media briefing ahead of the launch, Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of engineering for Ubuntu Linux, framed this release around a single word: resilience. He could have called it safer or more reliable, he said, but that wasn't enough.…