--- title: Ubuntu 26.04 Stopped Notifying Users About Updates, But... description: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS stopped showing update notifications due to an intentional design change that disabled the update-notifier tray icon, which the notifier... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-26-04-stopped-notifying-users-about-updates-but-that-was-intentional-ojglfce40 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ubuntu 26.04 Stopped Notifying Users About Updates, But That Was Intentional | daily.dev og:description: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS stopped showing update notifications due to an intentional design change that disabled the update-notifier tray icon, which the notifier... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-26-04-stopped-notifying-users-about-updates-but-that-was-intentional-ojglfce40 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ojGlFCE40.png og:image:alt: Ubuntu 26.04 Stopped Notifying Users About Updates, But That Was Intentional og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ubuntu 26.04 Stopped Notifying Users About Updates, But That Was Intentional **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Ubuntu 26.04 LTS stopped showing update notifications due to an intentional design change that disabled the update-notifier tray icon, which the notifier depended on to fire alerts. This left non-security updates silently pending, though security patches continued installing automatically via unattended-upgrades. A fix shipped as update-notifier 3.207.2 removes the tray icon dependency so notifications now trigger regardless of icon state. Users who want the tray icon back can re-enable it via gsettings. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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