THE CRUNCH
A large slice of Canonical's web services has been offline for hours, an awkward warm-up for the Ubuntu Summit that starts tomorrow. The company's status page lists disruption beginning at around 1100 UTC on 11 November, affecting gopkg.in, Ubuntu cloud images and mailing lists, jaas.ai, the Ubuntu keyserver, Launchpad PPAs, the Livepatch API, canonical.com, Ubuntu login, maas.io and 16 other services, with Landscape also hit.
Not everything is down: email and Canonical's Discourse forums remain available, which is just as well given the Summit timetable lives there. The Register says it asked Canonical for more information but had received no response at publication time, and the cause of the outage has not been confirmed. It follows a distributed denial-of-service attack on the company last month, though no link between that incident and this disruption has been established.
The timing is unfortunate. The online Summit runs on 12 and 13 November, the second of two events this year labelled 26.04 and 26.10 to mirror Ubuntu's release cycle, and recent editions have been primarily online with only a small in-person audience in Canonical's London offices. The programme lists several talks on AI and agentic coding, appearing to continue the AI-heavy line-up from June's event.