Cosmic – Kubuntu

Kubuntu 18.10 reaches end of life

rikmills — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:35:21 +0000

Kubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish was released on October 18th 2018 with 9 months support. As of 18th July 2019, 18.10 reaches ‘end of life’. No more package updates will be accepted to 18.10, and it will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks.

The official end of life announcement for Ubuntu as a whole can be found here [1].

Kubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo continues to be supported, receiving security and high-impact bugfix updates until January 2020.

Users of 18.10 can follow the Kubuntu 18.10 to 19.04 Upgrade [2] instructions.

Should for some reason your upgrade be delayed, and you find that the 18.10 repositories have been archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com, instructions to perform a EOL Upgrade can be found on the Ubuntu wiki [3].

Thank you for using Kubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish.

The Kubuntu team.

[1] – https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2019-July/000247.html
[2] – https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiscoUpgrades/Kubuntu
[3] – https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades

Plasma 5.15.1 arrives in Cosmic backports PPA

rikmills — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:49:33 +0000

We are pleased to announce that the 1st bugfix release of Plasma 5.15, 5.15.1, is now available in our backports PPA for Cosmic 18.10.

The release announcement detailing the new features and improvements in Plasma 5.15 can be found here, while the full 5.15.1 bugfix changelog can be found here.

Released along with this new version of Plasma is an update to KDE Frameworks 5.54. (5.55 is currently in testing in Disco 19.04 and may follow in the next few weeks.)

To upgrade:

Add the following repository to your software sources list:

ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

or if it is already added, the updates should become available via your preferred update method.

The PPA can be added manually in the Konsole terminal with the command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

and packages then updated with

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

IMPORTANT

Please note that more bugfix releases are scheduled by KDE for Plasma 5.15, so while we feel these backports will be beneficial to enthusiastic adopters, users wanting to use a Plasma release with more stabilisation/bugfixes ‘baked in’ may find it advisable to stay with Plasma 5.13.5 as included in the original 18.10 Cosmic release.

Should any issues occur, please provide feedback on our mailing list [1], IRC [2], and/or file a bug against our PPA packages [3].

1. Kubuntu-devel mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
2. Kubuntu IRC channels: #kubuntu & #kubuntu-devel on irc.freenode.net
3. Kubuntu ppa bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa

Kubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish (18.10) Beta Released

valorie-zimmerman — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:24:03 +0000

The beta of the Cosmic Cuttlefish (to become 18.10) has now been released, and is available for download at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/18.10/beta/

This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours.

Pre-releases of the Cosmic Cuttlefish are not encouraged for:

* Anyone needing a stable system
* Anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage.

They are, however, recommended for:

* Ubuntu flavour developers
* Those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready.
* the Beta includes some software updates that are ready for broader testing. However, it is an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs.

You can:

Read more information about the Kubuntu 18.10 Beta: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu

Download the Kubuntu 18.10 Beta images

Read the full text of the main Ubuntu Cosmic Beta announcement https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2018-September/004601.html

Read the main Ubuntu Cosmic Release notes, that may give more details of changes to the Ubuntu base: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes