Kubuntu 17.04 – Kubuntu https://kubuntu.org Friendly Computing Fri, 21 Apr 2017 01:31:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 KDE PIM update for Zesty available for testers https://kubuntu.org/news/kde-pim-update-for-zesty-available-for-testers/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 01:31:07 +0000 http://kubuntu.org/?p=3173 Since we missed by a whisker getting updated PIM (kontact, kmail, akregator, kgpg etc..) into Zesty for release day, and we believe it is important that our users have access to this significant update, packages are now available for testers in the Kubuntu backports landing ppa.

While we believe these packages should be relatively issue-free, please bear in mind that they have not been tested as comprehensively as those in the main ubuntu archive.

Testers should be prepared to troubleshoot and hopefully report issues that may occur. Please provide feedback on our mailing list [1], IRC [2], or optionally via social media.

After a period of testing and verification, we hope to move this update to the main backports ppa.

You should have some command line knowledge before testing.
Reading about how to use ppa purge is also advisable.

How to test KDE PIM 16.12.3 for Zesty:

Testing packages are currently in the Kubuntu Backports Landing PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports-landing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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

]]> Kubuntu 17.04 Released! https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-17-04-released/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:19:30 +0000 http://kubuntu.org/?p=3159

Codenamed “Zesty Zapus”, Kubuntu 17.04 continues our proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.10-based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.31, Plasma 5.9.4 and KDE Applications 16.12.3.

The Kubuntu Desktop has seen some exciting improvements, with newer versions of Qt, updates to major packages like Krita, Kdenlive, Firefox and LibreOffice, and stability improvements to the Plasma desktop environment.

For a list of other application updates, upgrading notes and known bugs be sure to read our release notes.

Download 17.04 or read about how to upgrade from 16.10.

]]> Kubuntu 17.04 Beta 1 released for testers https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-17-04-beta-1-released-for-testers/ Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:56:36 +0000 http://kubuntu.org/?p=3062

Today the Kubuntu team is happy to announce that Kubuntu Zesty Zapus (17.04) Beta 1 is released . With this Beta 1 pre-release, you can see and test what we are preparing for 17.04, which we will be releasing in April.

NOTE: This is Beta 1 Release. Kubuntu Beta Releases are NOT recommended for:

* Regular users who are not aware of pre-release issues
* Anyone who needs a stable system
* Anyone uncomfortable running a possibly frequently broken system
* Anyone in a production environment with data or work-flows that need to be reliable

Getting Kubuntu 17.04 Beta 1:
* Upgrade from 16.10: run `do-release-upgrade -d` from a command line.
* Download a bootable image (ISO) and put it onto a DVD or USB Drive : http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/zesty/beta-1/

Release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/Beta1/Kubuntu

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