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On 16/03/2023 21.46, Patrick Mahan wrote:
> I have to do development work on some machines running Ubuntu 18.04 which
> seems to only support emacs 25.
> 
> Can Ubuntu support a new version?  (26, 27 or higher?).

Well, you could always compile your own Emacs or use the packages kindly 
provided via launchpad:

https://launchpad.net/~kelleyk/+archive/ubuntu/emacs

Cheers,
Marcus