Canonical Talks Up RISC-V This Year With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Canonical put out a new blog post today highlighting their RISC-V work over 2025 that included switching to the RVA23 profile baseline for Ubuntu 25.10 and moving forward. Now with RVA23-compatible RISC-V hardware coming to market this year, Canonical is talking up the RISC-V possibilities when paired with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

With Canonical having shifted Ubuntu 25.10 RISC-V requirements to RVA23, it limited the support to basically RISC-V on QEMU. But this year RVA23 compliant RISC-V SoCs are coming to market with the likes of the SpacemiT K3 and thus Canonical talking up the new possibilities for Ubuntu on RISC-V.