Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Ubuntu 24.04 server image maintained by Cloud Infrastructure Services. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" delivers the latest Linux 6.8 kernel with improved syscall performance, nested KVM support on ppc64el, and access to the newly landed bcachefs filesystem. In addition to upstream improvements, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has merged low-latency kernel features into the default kernel, reducing kernel task scheduling delays.

Ubuntu 24.04 New Features:

• Performance engineering tools pre-enabled and pre-loaded.
• Increased developer productivity with LTS toolchains.
• New management tools for Ubuntu Desktop and WSL.
• Built for confidential computing on the cloud.
• Unprivileged user namespace restrictions.
• Binary hardening.
• AppArmor 4.
• Disabling of old TLS versions.
• Upstream Kernel Security Features.
• Intel shadow stack support.
• Secure virtualisation with AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX.
• Strict compile-time bounds checking.