Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will reach its end of life soon

This version of Ubuntu, which was released on October 2025, is now nearing the end of life period. Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka brought Linux 6.17, systemd 257.9, .NET 10.0, and various new versions of different packages. It’s a short term release that is supported for nine months, as opposed to long-term releases.

According to an announcement made on the mailing list, the support period is now becoming closer to the finish, with July 9th, 2026 being the day that Ubuntu 25.10 will no longer be supported.

This means that the following will happen:

• After the mentioned end of support date, Ubuntu 25.10 will no longer receive any new versions of packages.
• Security updates for different packages will also no longer be made for this version of Ubuntu.
• Official support will no longer cover this version of Ubuntu.

In order to continue receiving official support and new package updates, including security updates that will be distributed after July 2026, consult one of the upgrade paths, depending on the type of installation:

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is supported for 15 years total, including 5 years of mainstream support, which will include point releases that will be unveiled in the future, such as v26.04.1, which is expected to arrive in the second half of this year. We recommend that you upgrade your systems using 25.10 to this version to continue receiving updates and official support.

Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray Snapshot 1 released!

Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray 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 documentation site.

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 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?

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Beta is out!

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Beta is now released as of today for users who are curious to see the progress of this version of Ubuntu due to release on April 23rd. This is to ensure that high quality is met when the final version gets released to the public.

This version of Ubuntu features GNOME 50 that has made user experience more natural and intuitive, with many improvements to come, such as:

• Improved file manager app enables faster performance and more reliability, with faster thumbnail loading and reduced memory usage.
• Improved calendar app enables productivity improvements, with the major feature addition being the attendees list.
• Improved settings app receives several welcome improvements, including the “First day of the week” option for Date and Time.

In addition to that, GNOME 50 also features significantly improved remote desktop capabilities, thanks to a subset of changes made. The new hardware acceleration support, which uses Vulkan and VA-API, enables a major performance boost. Lag has been reduced to make remote sessions much smoother.

So, try out the beta version now by clicking on this link! Beware that beta releases might contain bugs and issues.

Ubuntu 25.10 Flatpak issue fix is on the way!

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka was released a week ago, and it brought many new exciting features. Sadly, it appears that it has broken Flatpak support, as users were encountering errors when trying to install any Flatpak application, and bug reports, such as this one, were being landed to Launchpad.

When Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka was released, users have discovered that the installation of any Flatpak application fails with error messages stating that it’s unable to unmount revokefs-fuse, which is a fatal bug. Additionally, AppArmor generates messages that talk about permission denial of file accesses in /run/mount/utab and its related files, which are /run/mount/utab.*.

The error messages that are generated when trying to install any Flatpak application are:

The bug will be fixed soon, but the fix has landed to the -proposed repository pocket with version 5.0.0~alpha1-0ubuntu8.1 of apparmor. Before, the version that came with the release was 5.0.0~alpha1-0ubuntu8.

When this fixed version was installed, people began verifying that the fix actually worked, and it looks like that the fix worked, as Flatpak installations seemed to have succeeded, and that the resulting applications were running fine. However, AppArmor still generates denial messages related to DAC_OVERRIDE and SETUID capabilities.

If the fix lands, you’ll be able to install and run Flatpak applications on your system.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Released!

The final release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka is now live! All development has been finalized, and the release team has made an official announcement of the release of this version of Ubuntu as you can see here.

Upgrades to Questing Quokka will now include what’s new for this release, such as GNOME 49 and updated software, which is simplified as in below. You can find the release notes here.

This version of Ubuntu provides the following:

• GNOME 49 will be provided as the default desktop environment.
• Linux 6.17 will be used, even if it is at its seventh release candidate for this version of Ubuntu.
• The system initialization program, systemd, has been updated to version v257.9.
• Rust-ification of the system has started, with sudo-rs being the default sudo provider and rust-coreutils being the Rust version of the core utilities.
• New hardware support, including the new Intel Arc for the Core Ultra Xe3 graphics card support.
• APT v3.1 is now the default package manager, and the new solver is in use.

To upgrade your system to 25.10, either open the terminal and run do-release-upgrade as root, or open Software Updates and start the upgrade. Make sure that your packages are upgraded first and that you’ve enabled non-LTS upgrades.

To download this awesome release, check out the following links:

• Ubuntu 25.10 desktop
• Kubuntu 25.10 desktop
• Lubuntu 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Budgie 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Kylin (麒麟) 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu MATE 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Studio 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Unity 25.10 desktop
• Xubuntu 25.10 desktop

Are you excited?

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Get Ready for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka!

The final release is just around the corner, and Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will make its official debut tomorrow as per the official release schedule for this version, which you can access here. All development has been finalized, and the release team is preparing a set of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka images to be publicly available for download.

The release notes for this version of Ubuntu is undergoing finalization, which means that upgrades to Questing Quokka will now include what’s new for this release. You can find the release notes here.

This version of Ubuntu provides the following:

• GNOME 49 will be provided as the default desktop environment.
• Linux 6.17 will be used, even if it is at its seventh release candidate for this version of Ubuntu.
• The system initialization program, systemd, has been updated to version v257.9.
• Rust-ification of the system has started, with sudo-rs being the default sudo provider and rust-coreutils being the Rust version of the core utilities.
• New hardware support, including the new Intel Arc for the Core Ultra Xe3 graphics card support.
• APT v3.1 is now the default package manager, and the new solver is in use.

The Foundations System team is now formed that is responsible for maintaining and delivering the base components for the system. You can learn more about this for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka here.

Are you ready for the release tomorrow?

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Ubuntu “dangerous” images are in production!

The “dangerous” daily build images for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, where the team publishes DVD images that represent daily builds of Ubuntu 25.10 but with snaps being updated to their latest versions using the edge channel instead of the more stable one, are now under production! The dangerous daily build images can be downloaded, but be mindful about their unstable nature of those images.

“Why are those images created?” This is a question that you’re asking yourselves when you learn about this change. Those images are created to help developers that work on the seeded snaps for Ubuntu. This is to achieve maximum efficiency during the development of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and future Ubuntu versions to come biannually.

This apparently happened during the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) FDE “spike” that happened earlier this year, when the daily build images started providing snaps that were update to their latest “bleeding edge” versions to help developers.

To help reduce the workload, we expect that two kinds of daily build images be built: one that was always built with snaps in their stable versions, and one that is the “dangerous” images that we talked about earlier.

You can read the official newsletter to learn more about such images here.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Beta is Out!

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Beta is now released as of today for users who are curious to see the progress of this version of Ubuntu due to release on October 9th. This is to ensure that high quality is met when the final version gets released to the public.

This version of Ubuntu features GNOME 49 that has made user experience more natural and intuitive, because it introduced new features, such as the new video player that replaces Totem and the new document viewer.

In addition to that, GNOME 49 also features a redesigned calendar application that makes organizing events much easier than never before. It also allows you to export the calendar events to an .ICS file for easier export.

So, try out the beta version now by clicking on this link! Beware that beta releases might contain bugs and issues.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Beta is close!

We are getting closer to the beta release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which was scheduled for the final release on October 9th. The beta version will be out later this week, and it has been scheduled on September 18th. The Beta Freeze has commenced as of today, along with the hardware enablement freeze, and only critical fixes that are important for the beta release may go inside the beta image that will be prepared late Thursday.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will be the last non-LTS release before the next LTS release, which is set to be released on April 2026. This means that you’ll be able to test the development version of the next LTS when the development itself starts, which is expected a week after the Questing Quokka final release.

In the quality assurance site for Ubuntu, the set of testing ISOs, which were built yesterday, is now available for you to test. You can find those builds below.

If the quality assurance results are all green, this version will become the beta version. Else, re-builds will be needed with the necessary changes to fix any last-minute bugs that may have been found.

As for the queue freeze, this freeze lasts until the development of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR begins and Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka begins. All seeded packages will now need a spot-check and a review from the release team member before the newer versions will be in the beta.

You’ll then be able to download the beta version once it becomes available, and we’ll let you know when the beta releases this Thursday.

Are you excited for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka?

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use Linux 6.17

Canonical has planned for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, to use the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel, which is currently at its fifth release candidate. This was done ahead of the kernel freeze that will start on September 25th, but not before the kernel feature freeze starts tomorrow.

According to Launchpad, the Linux source package has been updated to 6.17.0-3.3, which was published on September 5th of this year at the time that Linux 6.17 RC4 was still the current release candidate. This means that this plan went to fruition as of this date, and the migration from Linux 6.16 has become successful, even if Linux 6.17 has two release candidates left.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Beta will be released on September 18th with this version of the kernel being used. Afterwards, future versions of Linux 6.17 will be used as the Ubuntu release support goes on for nine months, which means that Ubuntu 25.10 will become EOL on July 2026.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR development will start after Ubuntu Questing gets released, and this is expected to start on October 16th.

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