Ubuntu 26.04 Mass Rebuild Touches All Archive Packages

If you run Ubuntu 26.04 development builds as your daily driver and you’ve noticed an above-average number of updates in recent days, don’t get excited: there aren’t stacks of new features landing – at least, not ones you can see. Rather, Ubuntu engineers recently began a “mass rebuild of all source packages”, re-compiling them from scratch to ensure that they have the right hardware compatibility features enabled. This ensures apps, libraries and tools spanning the entire resolute archive are using the distro’s preferred baselines where able – yup, even those dusty libraries that rarely see any major update, ever. As […]

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