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A social services organization in Tyrol, 24 locations, and the conviction that our data belongs in our own network: Here's how we put that principle into practice with Nubus and Ubuntu. Since 2014, I have been heading the IT department at pro mente tirol, a non-profit organization providing social psychiatric services for people with mental [...]

If you know Univention, you know the App Center. For years, it has been the go-to place for selecting and installing applications on Nubus for virtual machines (UCS). It has served its purpose well and that is exactly the point: our integration ecosystem has long outgrown installable apps. Identity connectors, groupware integrations, ISV applications via [...]

Bremen, July 29, 2026 – Univention GmbH, provider of open source solutions for the efficient management of digital identities and the integration of applications, has released the Integration Catalog, a new overview of all integrations for its Identity & Access Management Nubus. It brings together App Center applications, identity and groupware connectors, ID Broker connections, [...]

The first alpha release of UCS 5.3 is now available, making the next version of the operating environment for Nubus tangible. The focus of this release is on updating the Debian base. At the same time, an important organizational milestone is being prepared: the entry into force of the separate maintenance cycles for Nubus and [...]

The latest release of Nubus for Kubernetes puts operational stability front and center: The Provisioning Service now delivers changes from the directory service to downstream systems significantly faster. Many liveness and readiness probes have been reworked so that Kubernetes can assess the state of components more accurately. Additionally, the portal now prevents content from being [...]

With UCS 5.3, we are introducing an important structural change to our maintenance concept: We are following our product structure and splitting the previously shared maintenance commitment for the combination of Nubus as an Identity & Access Management solution (IAM) and UCS as the operating environment into two independent commitments. What may initially sound like [...]

Bremen, June 30, 2026 – Univention GmbH, provider of open source solutions for the efficient management of digital identities and the integration of applications, is sharpening its product communications and placing Nubus at the heart of its portfolio as the central IAM solution. Nubus brings together the capabilities for identity and access management, application integration, [...]

The latest patch-level release of Univention Corporate Server bundles all new features and improvements from the past three months onto new installation media. UCS 5.2-6 brings highlights from Univention Nubus such as a new metrics endpoint for improved observability and technical details for directory objects in the Management UI and additions to the mail stack [...]

Yesterday, the US government ordered Anthropic to stop providing its latest AI models – Mythos 5 and Fable 5 – to people without US citizenship. Anthropic then blocked access completely. The explanation: at present, the company cannot reliably determine which users hold which citizenship. Let that sink in for a moment. Access to a key [...]

The debate around Digital Sovereignty is often framed as a contest between the United States and Europe, yet the underlying issue resonates far beyond these regions. Around the world, countries seek measurable control over government IT systems and data infrastructures while safeguarding citizens’ privacy and civil society. Their shared goal is to reclaim autonomy in [...]