If Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hasn’t nagged you about pending updates in a while, there’s a reason for. A Launchpad bug report and related discussion on the Ubuntu Discourse noticed that the distro’s update-manager no longer notifies when updates are pending unless the update notification tray icon is enabled. The rub? That tray icon is turned off in 26.04, without a GUI toggle in Settings to turn it back on. This approach is a break with the past, but it’s not bad. Ubuntu ships with unattended-upgrades enabled by default, which installs security updates in the background – you just not told […]You're reading Here’s why your Ubuntu 26.04 install has gone quiet on updates, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.