Latest releases

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

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

Fully synced with the Gentoo Linux testing tree as of 2026-04-19. Kernel - Linux kernel 6.19.13 is now the default. For those requiring older versions, 6.18, 6.15, 6.12, 6.6, 6.1 and 5.15 LTS remain available in the repositories. Toolchain - updated to glibc 2.42, GCC 15.2.1, Binutils 2.42, Clang/LL... Read more

Building on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base released today by Canonical, Kubuntu 26.04 introduces Plasma 6.6 as the flagship desktop environment, alongside Qt 6.10.2, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, and the latest KDE Gear 25.12.3 application suite. We’ve also upgraded to Linux kernel 7.0 for enhanced hardware sup... 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

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

This release presents the new Linux kernel 7.0.0 as well as the new version 147.0.7727.55-1 of the web browser google-chrome-stable. In addition, among other things, Starbuntu has added Java GUI examples. Moreover, Starbuntu has further improved its kernel upgrade software by eliminating from now on... Read more

We are now making use of systemd preset files to manage which services are enabled by default. We used to link services to a respective target.wants directory to make a service start automatically, but this has two issues: it causes systemd to not correctly show their status, and is slightly harder ... Read more

We are excited to announce the release of GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2. This release marks a major milestone as GhostBSD moves to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, bringing the latest upstream improvements, including enhanced hardware support, security updates, and kernel advancements. Key highlights: the default shel... Read more