The release schedule for the Resolute Raccoon is now known to us as Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka got released last week. The Ubuntu team is now working on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon as development has just started. As we have mentioned earlier, the repositories have been initialized for the next LTS after Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat, and the daily builds will use those repositories to help shape the future of Ubuntu.

Canonical has released the brand new Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka version, which brings a lot of improvements thanks to the updated packages. A new version of Ubuntu, called 26.04 Resolute Raccoon, has started its development a week after the abovementioned Ubuntu version was released. This version is reported to have GNOME 50 desktop and a future version of Linux. The release schedule is known, and can be accessed…

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.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is reportedly to start development in a week after the release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which was released today. This version of Ubuntu will feature the upcoming .NET 10.0 LTS release which will be supported for up to three years, with the most interesting features being in the final release. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS about to start development, .NET 10.0 would have been already updated to its second release candidate, a milestone before the final release.

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.

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.

This week, when Canonical is supposed to be releasing Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, the Ubuntu's official X account has revealed some very interesting information about the next LTS that will come after Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat. The next LTS, which will be released on April 2026, will be codenamed Resolute Raccoon! This is going to mark one of the very important development milestones for the whole Ubuntu project as it marks the tenth long term release version that will be released since the Dapper Drake appeared on June 2006.

After Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin was released, the Ubuntu team started the development of the next version of Ubuntu, called Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka. Since then, new versions of software have been introduced with new features and bug fixes. Please note that this is the last release schedule article we'll publish for all future Ubuntu versions. You'll have to follow the release schedule that we'll link once development starts and the schedule gets published.

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.

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.

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.

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Bazaar and Git are both version controlling systems for source code and for projects. However, Git became more popular than Canonical's Bazaar, and Launchpad was hosting the free Bazaar code hosting platform, just like how GitHub, GitLab, and their likes host code using Git, for open-source projects. The back-end in the Launchpad's code hosting functionality is Bazaar, and the front-end is web-based.

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…

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish was shipped with OpenJDK 19 as one of the supported Java open-source JDK toolkit. However, what was recently planned today has drawn our attention, and we felt the need to warn users using OpenJDK 19 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. By October 2025, OpenJDK 19, which was EOL on March 23rd, 2023, will no longer be available on the official repositories for the Jammy Jellyfish release.

After Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin was released, the Ubuntu team started the development of the next version of Ubuntu, called Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka. Since then, new versions of software have been introduced with new features and bug fixes. However, like all the other development schedules for all the Ubuntu versions while they're in development, the feature freezes were to be expected in the last week of the last three months.

Two months before the official stable release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka prior to the development of the next LTS version to be released on April 2026, the Ubuntu artwork team has revealed the official wallpapers of the next version of Ubuntu. They called it "A Journey of a Thousand Smiles." You can see the official artwork below: In addition to the official wallpapers that are revealed above, whose description can be found in the official blog entry, several wallpapers that are chosen to be winners of the competition can be found here: Those wallpapers will land to the final version of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka scheduled for October 9th.

Today, the Ubuntu Release Management Team has published their first monthly newsletter on Discourse to make more people aware of the news of Ubuntu development and release each month. August and July were very interesting when it comes to Ubuntu, because Ubuntu 24.04.3 was released, alongside the Oracular Oriole end of life. Alongside these changes is 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 one significant key feature: all snaps will be updated to their latest versions using the…

As of today, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka has entered the feature freeze according to the release schedule that you can see here. Also, you can consult the release notes that has the tentative versions of the major toolsets and the packages, since the feature freeze, here. Generally, all packages now have to go through the bug fixing stage, which means that there will be no features being added to them to ensure stability of the release, which will happen this October.

Starting from today, all GitHub Actions users can now use the ARM64 runners that use the Ubuntu Linux 22.04 and 24.04 operating systems, as well as Windows 11 ARM64. This now matches what we already have in GitLab for Linux runners. According to the official GitHub blog article, the ARM64 runner for both Linux and Windows is now generally available, long after the macOS ARM64 runners were available for months.