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On April 23, 2026, the Kylin Team officially released Ubuntu Kylin 26.04, which will be supported for 3 years. Based on the Linux 7.0 kernel, Ubuntu Kylin 26.04 brings major upgrades to core libraries, subsystems, and essential software, improving overall stability and compatibility. The desktop env... Read more

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 26.04. Xubuntu 26.04, code-named 'Resolute Raccoon', is a long-term support (LTS) release and will be supported for three years, until April 2029. It features the latest Xfce 4.20 and GNOME 49 updates. Xfce 4.20 updates feature s... Read more

The Edubuntu Installer and Menu Administration tools have been completely rewritten from the ground up in Python, replacing the previous shell-based implementation. This brings significant improvements: Dual UI Backends: Automatically detects your desktop environment and launches the appropriate int... Read more

This release presents the new Linux kernel 7.0.1 as well as the new version 147.0.7727.116-1 of the web browser google-chrome-stable. In addition, among other things, Starbuntu has added an app for storage media information and another one for writing a bootable filesystem image to a storage device.... Read more

Ubuntu Unity 26.04 'Resolute Raccoon' is out! Even though it is not LTS officially we will support it like it is LTS release. You can download it from here. This is our first release during the absence of Rudra and Maik. As such Ubuntu Unity 26.04 continues to use Unity 7.7, which has undergone main... Read more

Ubuntu Budgie 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is a Long Term Support release, supported for three years by the Ubuntu Budgie team. This release ships with Budgie Desktop 10.10.2 and marks a full transition to Wayland. Ubuntu Budgie 26.04 is Wayland‑only and uses labwc as the default compositor. No Xorg... Read more

You can trace a clear through-line across recent LTS cycles: 20.04 LTS was the last Xfce-based LTS and set up the desktop transition, 22.04 LTS stabilized the Plasma era, and 24.04 LTS introduced the new Subiquity/Flutter installer generation and PipeWire 1.0 maturity. Ubuntu Studio 26.04 LTS builds... Read more

The Resources app now replaces the System Monitor app and the Power Statistics app in the GNOME environment. Resources enable you to monitor the utilization of your system resources, including the CPU, memory, GPU, network and storage and power usage. Compared to System Monitor, it comes with the fo... Read more

I am proud to announce our latest release: Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.04 Resolute Raccoon! Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.04 comes with Cinnamon 6.4.13 and will be supported until 2029, as it is a LTS (long-term service) release. This means it will continue getting updates and bug fixes for longer than a non-LTS releas... Read more

What's new since 24.04 LTS? LXQt 2.3 is now shipped by default. More information on its release can be found here: 2.3.0. 2048-qt is somewhat broken in Ubuntu 26.04 and therefore was removed from Lubuntu. See the Resolute Beta release notes for details. Many of the GNU coreutils were replaced by Rus... Read more