See the Ubuntu 20.04.5 Release Notes and the Kubuntu Release Notes.

Download all available released images.

Codenamed “Jammy Jellyfish”, Kubuntu 22.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest Free Software 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 5.15-based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.92, Plasma 5.24 LTS and KDE Gear (formerly Applications) 21.12.3.

Kubuntu has seen many updates for other applications, both in our default install, and installable from the Ubuntu archive.

Elisa, KDE connect, Krita, Kdevelop, Digikam, Latte-dock, and many many more applications are updated.

Applications that are key for day-to-day usage are included and updated, such as Firefox, VLC and Libreoffice.

For this release we provide Thunderbird for email support, however the KDE PIM suite (including kontact and kmail) is still available to install from the archive.

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

Download 22.04 LTS or read how to upgrade from 21.10 and 20.04.

Note: From 21.10, there may a delay of a few hrs to days between the official release announcements and the Ubuntu Release Team enabling upgrades. From 20.04, upgrades will not be enabled until approximately the date of the 1st 22.04 point release (22.04.1) at the end of July.

Codenamed “Hirsute Hippo”, Kubuntu 21.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by 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 5.11-based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.80, KDE Plasma 5.21 and KDE Release Service Applications 20.12.3

Kubuntu has seen many updates for other applications, both in our default install, and installable from the Ubuntu archive.

Krita, Kdevelop, Yakuake, and many many more applications are updated.

Applications for core day to day usage are included and updated, such as Firefox, VLC and Libreoffice.

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

Download Kubuntu 21.04, or learn how to upgrade from 20.10.

Note: From 20.10, there may a delay of a few hrs to days between the official release announcements and the Ubuntu Release Team enabling upgrades.

Kubuntu 17.10 has been released, featuring the beautiful Plasma 5.10 desktop from KDE.

Codenamed “Artful Aardvark”, Kubuntu 17.10 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 4.13-based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.38, Plasma 5.10.5 and KDE Applications 17.04.3

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

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

Download 17.10 or read about how to upgrade from 17.04.

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.

Show Audio Feeds

MP3: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KubuntuPodcast-mp3

OGG: http://feeds.feedburner.com/KubuntuPodcast-ogg

Pocket Casts links

OGG

MP3

Show Hosts

Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan

• blog: http://ovidiu.geekaliens.com

Rick Timmis

• G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RickTimmis
• Blog: http://sickrimmit.blogspot.co.uk/

Aaron Honeycutt (Video/Audio Podcast Production)

• G+: https://plus.google.com/+AaronHoneycutt
• blog: http://usefoss.com/

Intro

What have we (the hosts) been doing ?

• Aaron
  • Gone to cookery class
• Rick
  • London Linux Meetup
  • Wrangling with Google+
  • Kubuntu Packaging Guide
• Ovidiu
  • Kubuntu Vision Meeting
  • Coder Dojo

Sponsor: Big Blue Button

Those of you that have attended the Kubuntu parties, will have seen our Big Blue Button conference and online education service.

Video, Audio, Presentation, Screenshare and whiteboard tools.

We are very grateful to Fred Dixon and the team at BigBlueButton.org go check out their project.

Kubuntu News

• Kubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak
• Kubuntu Vision Meeting

Elevator Picks

• Ovidiu – KStars
• Aaron –
• Rick – Gqrx – Software Defined Radio
  • http://www.rtl-sdr.org

Sponsor: Linode

Linode, an awesome VPS with super fast SSD’s, Data connections, and top notch support. We have worked out a sponsorship for a server to build packages quicker and get to our users faster.

Instantly deploy and get a Linode Cloud Server up and running in seconds with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.

• SSD Storage
• 40Gbit Network
• Intel E5 Processors

BIG SHOUT OUT to Linode for working with us!

Kubuntu Developer Feedback

• Great opportunity for a little post release rest

Sponsor: Bytemark

Bytemark was founded with a simple mission: reliable, UK hosting. Co-founders Matthew Bloch & Peter Taphouse, both engineers by nature built the business from the ground up.

Today, they lead a team of 31 staff who operate Bytemark’s own data centre in York, monitor its 10Gbps national network and deliver 24/7 support to clients of all sizes. Brands hosted on Bytemark’s network include the Royal College of Art, data.gov.uk and DVLA Auctions, and of course Kubuntu.

Drop by their website, and get Started with a free month of cloud hosting!

Afiliate link: http://www.bytemark.co.uk/r/kubuntu

Listener Feedback

Valorie and the whole Kubuntu team
I used Kubuntu for many years. Since 2000 I use Linux (Mandrake and then Kubuntu)
So I want to thank you and congratulate for your work and your distribution I look forward every 6 months
Good luck and thank you again
Sincerely : TuxMario
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Contact Us

How to contact the Kubuntu Team:

• Website: https://kubuntu.org
• IRC: irc.freenode.net
  • #kubuntu
  • #kubuntu-devel
• Telegram Groups:
  • Support: https://telegram.me/kubuntu_support
  • Cafe: https://telegram.me/joinchat/Bpq8FwCyZ1kDx_bXTJGwqw
• Telegram Channel:
  • News: https://telegram.me/kubuntu
• Social Media
  • Google+
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Reddit
  • Linkedin

How to contact the Kubuntu Podcast Team:

• Google+
• Youtube

We, the Kubuntu Team are very happy to announce that Kubuntu 16.10 is finally here!

After 6 months of hard but fun work we have a bright new release for you all!

We packaged some great updates from the KDE Community such as:

– Plasma 5.7.5
– Applications 16.04.3
– Frameworks 5.26.0

We also have updated to version 4.8 of the Linux kernel with improvements across the board such as Microsoft Surface 3 support.

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

Download 16.10 or read about how to upgrade from 16.04.

This is the first release from the team since we became a completely volunteer group, just after the release of 15.10. Delivering an Long-Term Release (LTS) release is a superb achievement, and testimony to our community’s commitment to Ubuntu and KDE.

Beta-tester feedback has been resounding and positive. This confirms the amazing work that is being undertaken by our upstream KDE community. Plasma 5, KDE Frameworks 5 and all of KDE continue to demonstrate how Free/Libre Open Source Software sets world class standards for innovation, usability and integration.

What can you expect from this latest release?

Our new software center: Plasma Discover brim-full of software to choose from.

The latest KDE PIM with lots of features and fixes Including the latest Akonadi support and integration with MySQL 5.7.

Plasma 5, the next generation of KDE’s desktop has been rewritten to make it smoother to use while retaining the familiar setup.

Kubuntu 16.04 comes with KDE Applications 15.12 containing all your favourite apps from KDE, including Dolphin. Even more applications have been ported to KDE Frameworks 5 but those which aren’t, should fit in seamlessly. For a complete desktop suite of applications we’ve included some non-KDE applications such as LibreOffice 5.1 and Firefox 45.

Keen developer types and friends of Muon Package Manager will be delighted to know that the project has got a new team of maintainers, and a new release just in time for this Kubuntu LTS.

What are you waiting for? Download the ISO from our downloads section, or upgrade now from 15.10!

Warning: 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS upgrade is currently problematic and should not be attempted by the average user. Please install a fresh copy of 16.04.1 instead. To prevent messages about upgrading, change Prompt=lts to Prompt=normal or Prompt=never in the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades file.

The Kubuntu Podcast team will be reviewing the latest release, and discussing feedback from the community on the next show. More details available in the podcast section.

Please also check out our release notes.

The Beta-1 images can be downloaded from: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/wily/beta-1/

More information on Kubuntu Beta-1 can be found here: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/WilyWerewolf/Beta1/Kubuntu

See the 14.04.3 release announcement.

Download 14.04.3 images.