If you run Ubuntu 26.04 development builds as your daily driver and have noticed a glut of updates in recent days, don’t get excited: there aren’t reams of new features heading your way – at least, not ones you can see. Ubuntu engineers recently began a “mass rebuild of all source packages”, re-compiling them from scratch to ensure that they have the right tooling and hardware compatibility features enabled. This wholesale task ensures that the majority of apps, libraries and tools spanning the entire resolute archive are using the distro’s preferred baselines where applicable – yup, even those dusty libraries […]