The Kubuntu team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 25.04 has been released. Code-named 'Plucky Puffin', Kubuntu 25.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open-source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The release features the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop, KDE Gear 24.12.3, Linux kernel 6.14 and many other updated applications and libraries. Applications for core day-to-day usage are included and updated, such as Firefox and LibreOffice. In addition to the applications on our install media, 25.04 benefits from the huge number of applications in the Ubuntu archive, plus those installable via snap or other methods. Plasma Wayland session is the default option in sddm (display manager login screen). An X11 session can be selected instead if desired. The last-used session type will be remembered, so you do not have to switch type on each login. Please refer to our release notes for further details.
The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 is included by default. GIMP is now capable of non-destructive editing with filters, better Photoshop PSD export, and so very much more. Check out the GIMP 3.0 release announcement for more information. Ubuntu Studio now includes Pencil2D. This is a 2D animation and drawing application that is sure to be helpful to animators. You can use basic clipart to make animations. The basic features of Pencil2D are: layers support (separated layer for bitmap, vector and soud part), bitmap drawing, vector drawing, sound support. The LibreOffice suite is now part of the full desktop install. This will save space for those wishing for a minimalistic setup for their needs.
What changed in Ubuntu MATE 25.04? Here are the highlights of what's new in the 'Plucky Puffin' release: celebrating 10 years as an official Ubuntu flavour; optional full disk encryption in the installer; enhanced advanced partitioning options; better interaction with existing BitLocker-enabled Windows installations; improved experience when installing alongside other operating systems. Major applications accompanying MATE desktop and Linux 6.14 are Firefox 137, Evolution 3.56, LibreOffice 25.2.2. See the Ubuntu 25.04 Release Notes for details of all the changes and improvements that Ubuntu MATE benefits from.
Xubuntu 25.04, code-named 'Plucky Puffin', is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until January 2026. Xubuntu 25.04 features the latest Xfce 4.20, GNOME 48 and MATE 1.26 updates. Xfce 4.20 features many bug fixes and minor improvements, modernizing the Xubuntu desktop while maintaining a familiar look and feel. GNOME 48 apps are tightly integrated and have full support for dark mode. Users of QEMU and KVM will be delighted to find new stability with the desktop session—the long-running X server crash has been resolved in Xubuntu 25.04 and backported to all supported Xubuntu releases. The final release images for Xubuntu Desktop and Xubuntu Minimal are available as torrents and direct downloads. Highlights: Xfce 4.20, released in December 2024, is included and contains many new features; GNOME 48 apps, including Font Viewer (gnome-font-viewer) and Mines (gnome-mines), include a refreshed appearance and usability improvements.
Our biggest point of refresh has been on two fronts, which we've previously laid out in our '24.04 LTS to 26.04 LTS' cycle plans: Port as much software as reasonable from Qt 5 to Qt 6. Get Lubuntu fully prepared for Wayland. Of course, some other items have happened, such as our move to Fancy Menu by default. This being said, Qt 6 porting and Wayland preparation were the primary points of focus. Again on the point of 'stability comes first,' we decided to delay Wayland one last cycle. This is the last time we are delaying this. Thanks to the warm welcome and support from the Mir team, Fedora LXQt, and a handful of other teams, we are proud to announce that Lubuntu 25.10, Questing Quokka, will indeed ship with Miriway as the default Wayland compositor, backed by a deb-based Mir 2.20.
TrueNAS 'Fangtooth' has been released with the today’s launch of TrueNAS 25.04.0. This RELEASE version of TrueNAS brings improvements to apps and OpenZFS for both community and enterprise users, and is the recommended and unified upgrade path for both SCALE 24.10 and CORE 13.x installations. For our TrueNAS enterprise users there are additional major performance, security and storage integration improvements. TrueNAS 25.04 builds on the widely adopted TrueNAS 24.10 'Electric Eel' which delivered both integrated Docker support and significantly improved performance over TrueNAS 13.0. It builds on the combined capabilities of both TrueNAS CORE and SCALE. Fangtooth introduces a number of new features, including Linux kernel 6.12 featuring improved and extended hardware support.
In this version, the causes of the reported, albeit non-critical warnings, have been remedied in the upgrade process. In addition, some outdated albeit still working functions in the GRUB2 configuration have been replaced by current ones. A small error in the command input program has also been corrected. Moreover, this version contains the latest upgrade of the webbrowser google-chrome-stable (version 135.0.7049.84-1).
Hardware compatibility and kernel optimization: integrated 6.6/6.12 kernel updates; NVIDIA graphics driver upgrades; Intel/AMD CPU microcode updates for comprehensive improvements in hardware compatibility and low-level performance. Core feature enhancements: DDE - introduced smart mirror source management and compact mode entry; global search - added offline natural language processing (NLP) and AI-powered capabilities. Developer tools and cross-platform support: App Store - adapted for Debian/Ubuntu/Arch subsystem environments with quick-launch support; Linyaps - added remote repository management and build tool optimizations, boosting application development efficiency. 4.UOS AI Upgrade Default engine switched to DeepSeek; added web search integration, local model deployment and text error correction features....
Ultramarine 41 comes with a new tool for advanced users, um. Currently, its main feature is the um status command, which gives an overview of your install, package status, hardware, and more. This is useful for sharing your install details for support (or flexing your rig). Additionally, the status command supports uploading your status information to Boba, our web viewer. Just run um status --upload and the CLI will output a link that you can share. This upload is end to end encrypted and will expire in 7 days. We plan to put experimental features and advanced options in this CLI tool, stay tuned for more! Flagship Edition got new default apps! Our PDF viewer is now Evince and our music player is now Lollypop. In addition, your apps menu icon should now be the Ultramarine logo, in line with the rest of our editions.
Manjaro 25.0 'Zetar' released. Since we released 'Yonada' in December 2024, we worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it 'Zetar'. The GNOME edition has received several updates to Gnome 48 series. This includes a lot of fixes and polish when Gnome 48 3 originally was released in March 2025. The Plasma edition comes with the latest Plasma 6.3 series 1, Frameworks 6.12 and KDE Gear 24.12 1. It brings exciting new improvements to your desktop. With our Xfce edition, we have now Xfce 4.20. Linux kernel 6.12 is used for this release, including the latest drivers available to date. With 6.6 LTS and 6.1 LTS, we offer additional support for older hardware as needed.