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At Google I/O 2026, Google announced that Canonical will take over as the lead maintainer and strategic steward of Flutter desktop for Windows, macOS, and Linux, marking a shift in governance. The move leverages Canonical's deep technical expertise, having already made Flutter its default for Ubuntu desktop apps.
bijou64 is a new variable-length integer encoding that ensures canonical representation, solving signature-verification bugs, and also runs several times faster than the common LEB128 encoding.
A DDoS attack temporarily disrupted Canonical's public infrastructure after attackers used a stresser service explicitly marketed to bypass Cloudflare. The incident has sparked debate over Cloudflare's dual role in hosting both the attackers' commercial operations and Canonical's protected systems, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest.