Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 1 released!

As we’ve indicated earlier, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, 2025, has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu Discourse forum.

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR, will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

• Ubuntu
• Edubuntu
• Kubuntu
• Lubuntu
• Xubuntu
• Ubuntu Budgie
• Ubuntu MATE
• Ubuntu Unity
• Ubuntu Cinnamon
• Ubuntu Kylin (麒麟)
• Ubuntu Studio

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 1 released!

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https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-snapshot-1-released/

Rust Coreutils “uutils” v0.1 released!

The developers behind the Rust coreutils, called uutils, has reached a major milestone with the release of v0.1.0. This comes after the last release, which was v0.0.30. This version is now on GitHub, which you can check out below.

This version of uutils contains many interesting changes done to the system utilities, including cp, ls, and others. The SELinux support has been added to cp, ls, mkdir, mknod, mkfifo, install, and stat for systems that are security oriented. This makes sure that systems with this coreutils implementation can now enjoy better security with SELinux enabled, especially when SELinux is enforcing.

In addition to that, the speed has been improved to match and possibly exceed the legacy GNU coreutils performance. You can now notice the improved speed in commands like cat, ls, wc, tail, seq, and more.

Thanks to many commits and contributions done to the Rust coreutils project, it has witnessed many changes done to various commands, such as date allowing negative date offsets, echo allowing double hyphens, and print fixing octal escape parsing.

In addition to that, the test suite compatibility has seen increasing number of successes. While 0.0.30 has 507 passes; 41 skips; and 69 fails, version 0.1.0 has 522 passes; 31 skips; and 65 passes.

As a result, as future versions get released, compatibility with the older GNU coreutils increases. This is evidenced by the increasing number of succeeding unit tests for the Rust coreutils project, especially when it comes to SELinux-related tests.

You can consult the official website of Rust coreutils below.

What about Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is planning to ship uutils to replace the older GNU coreutils as part of the broader plan, called “Oxidizing Ubuntu.” Ubuntu 25.10 will be the first version of Ubuntu that will use this coreutils implementation to ensure that your Ubuntu system becomes both more secure and quicker; furthermore, your productivity will increase as the improved performance becomes prevalent in this release.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use the Rust coreutils during the development cycle, along with the Rust implementation of sudo called rs-sudo. In later development milestones, Ubuntu will use the findutils and the diffutils projects from the master uutils project.

You will be able to download the stable release of this Ubuntu version on October 9th, 2025.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use NTS by default!

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka is tipped to use the more secure chrony client for the Network Time Protocol (NTP), which supports Network Time Security (NTS), to replace systemd’s implementation that doesn’t support secure traffic. This is done to make your system more secure as time is a trust anchor for cryptography and it’s related processes, such as processing certificates.

The NTP client allows you to obtain the correct system time from a network time server using your Internet connection. This uses your location to get the current time where you live. This makes it so that you don’t have to manually specify the exact date and time without making a mistake, such as being two minutes late.

According to the bug tracker found in Launchpad, the more secure method of obtaining the time, which utilizes chrony, is used in certain Ubuntu cloud images, while the more generic images, such as Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server, rely on systemd. The plan of migration is laid out in the same bug report, which looks like this:

• Switching to chrony manually is required prior to any migration.
• Changing the seeds to utilize chrony in “platform:minimal” and “ubuntu:cloud-minimal” seeds.
• Updating the ubuntu-meta package to update the dependencies to install chrony.
• Dropping the systemd-timesyncd recommendation from systemd.
• Verifying that chrony is used in the new daily builds and in the new installations.
• Implementing the transition logic in ubuntu-release-upgrader to make necessary replacements.

If everything is OK, the documentation and the release notes will be updated to reflect the updated state. However, in the minimal chroot, the installation size will grow the image size by 803 kilobytes, which is not a big deal.

This is to make sure that your Ubuntu system becomes more secure than before when it comes to network time management and synchronization, ensuring that there are no man in the middle attacks.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use chrony to replace systemd-timesyncd to improve security.

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https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-will-use-nts-by-default/

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will have four snapshots!

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https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-will-have-four-snapshots/

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will have four snapshots!

Recently, the release schedule of the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka release has been updated to feature a very interesting change to how the alpha and beta tests are done. However, the Beta and the RC releases are still planned to be made on September 18th and October 2nd, respectively. This version of Ubuntu will have four snapshots:

• May 29th: Questing Quokka Snapshot 1
• June 26th: Questing Quokka Snapshot 2
• July 31st: Questing Quokka Snapshot 3
• August 28th: Questing Quokka Snapshot 4

It’s currently unclear as to what those snapshots refer to, but they are likely to be the internal development checkpoints that are done from early development to the feature freeze month. Those snapshots are done prior to the beta release expected September 18th.

In September, however, there is no snapshot, because the Beta release would have been done already. The development will have reached the final stages by the time we get ready for the upcoming Ubuntu LTS version that will be released on April 2026.

Get ready for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka!

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use Linux 6.17!

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https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka-will-use-linux-6-17/

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use Linux 6.17!

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use the upcoming Linux 6.17, which will come after Linux 6.16 that succeeds the next week’s Linux 6.15 stable release. This is done according to the official Canonical forum post that was made today, backed by their commitment to providing the latest hardware support by using the latest Linux kernel release that was released by the feature freeze. This allows Canonical to use the latest release candidate of the Linux 6.17 kernel that is to be out in October according to the prediction list.

To recap, the following release milestones will be:

• September 11, 2025 (UTC): Kernel Feature Freeze
• September 15, 2025 (UTC): Beta Freeze / HWE Freeze
• September 25, 2025 (UTC): Kernel Freeze
• October 2, 2025 (UTC): Final Freeze
• October 9, 2025 (UTC): Final Release

However, the team advises that the timeline is tentative, suggesting that there may be changes to be done. However, the changes to the release schedule are unlikely to occur.

Ubuntu 25.10 is the upcoming release of this operating system, which should be out in October 9th.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will improve your desktop experience

Last month, Ubuntu 25.10 development had started by updating the Ubuntu repository servers to serve new information for this upcoming version of Ubuntu, which is the final interim release before the next Long Term Support (LTS) release, which will be Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR. The roadmap has been finally shared on the Ubuntu Discourse forums to let you know about how this version of Ubuntu will progress.

According to the roadmap, the following key features of Ubuntu 25.10 (our curation) will be:

• Desktop Experience
  • GNOME 49 will land to this version of Ubuntu to bring in some of Wayland-related improvements, especially when you’re on a computer that uses NVIDIA graphics cards, the latest being NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50xx series.
  • Loupe will be used by default as a new image editor that will streamline your user experience. Meanwhile, a new terminal emulator, Ptyxis (or GNOME Prompt), will be used in lieu of the older GNOME Terminal, all under the GNOME umbrella.
  • If you are gaming on Ubuntu, the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) feature has been added to Mutter to improve your gaming performance on compatible monitors, such as the latest Samsung Odyssey gaming monitors.
  • RISC-V users will be able to experience the full Ubuntu Desktop for the first time, especially as this processor architecture gains in popularity. Basic applications, such as Mozilla Firefox, will be usable there.
• TPM-backed FDE
  • Full disk encryption will be backed by your TPM chip that is either discrete or integrated, especially when you’re using TPM 2.0. The recovery key management will be available to you, where you’ll be able to view, save, and print your recovery key during the installation stage. You can regenerate the key later, in case you lost it. You will be able to use your PIN.
  • In addition to that, firmware updates, especially the BIOS ones, may trigger a “hardware change” detection mechanism, which will cause your system to prompt you for your recovery key to unlock your hard drive again. Taking this into account, the firmware updater will give you a warning message when you proceed to upgrade the firmware. BIOS updates will only be done if you’ve enabled UEFI capsule and you’re booting Ubuntu in UEFI mode.
• Ubuntu Desktop Documentation
  • Starting from this version of Ubuntu, the documentation will be refined to diverge from the traditional and hard-to-follow generic documentation to the more refined docs to allow end users to learn more about the Ubuntu Desktop more efficiently.
• Accessibility
  • While accessibility remains a core part of Ubuntu’s mission, the Ubuntu team is preparing to follow all the rules by the deadline of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) enforcement, which will be in June 2025.
  • Accessibility features will be improved to make sure that everyone will be able to use the Ubuntu desktop.

The release timeline will be as follows:

• Feature Freeze: August 14, 2025
• User Interface Freeze: September 4, 2025
• Beta Release: September 18, 2025
• Final Release: October 9, 2025

Stay tuned for more Ubuntu updates!

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