Desktop environment and technology: GNOME 51 brings the latest improvements in performance, usability and polish to the Edubuntu desktop; Linux kernel 7.3 provides updated hardware support and performance improvements; Edubuntu GRUB branding - the boot menu now identifies the system as Edubuntu; refreshed branding assets - fixes to the System, About logo, and the correct Edubuntu mascot is now shown when installation completes on amd64. The Edubuntu installer (now at version 1.1) gains finer control over what gets installed, in the desktop (GTK4/Qt6) interfaces and the Cockpit module alike: expandable package lists - each metapackage can be expanded to show its individual Depends and Recommends packages; individual package selection - install or remove specific Depends and Recommends entries directly, with checkbox behavior that better matches what the APT resolver expects....