Canonical to Deliver Newer AMD ROCm Versions via Ubuntu SRUs
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Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 3 June 2026 at 07:44 AM EDT. 1 Comment
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Summary
Canonical announced that Ubuntu will ship newer AMD ROCm versions via Stable Release Updates (SRUs), addressing the issue that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS currently ships ROCm 7.1 which is already months out of date compared to upstream. This follows the recent change making it possible to simply 'apt install rocm' on Ubuntu for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. The move aims to improve the AI/GPU compute experience on Ubuntu with AMD hardware.
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· 3 pulledAs noted back in April, with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it's now possible to simply 'apt install rocm' on Ubuntu Linux for installing AMD's open-source GPU compute stack.
Canonical shared today that moving forward they plan to ship newer ROCm versions as stable release updates (SRUs).
Frustratingly, in Ubuntu 26.04 so far is ROCm 7.1 that is already months behind the current
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