{"id":3159,"date":"2017-04-13T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubuntu.org\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2017-04-13T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:19:30","slug":"kubuntu-17-04-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/news\/kubuntu-17-04-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubuntu 17.04 Released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3154\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/99d5\/rect4147a-1024x263.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Codenamed &#8220;Zesty Zapus&#8221;, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.10-based kernel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kde.org\/announcements\/kde-frameworks-5.31.0.php\">KDE Frameworks 5.31<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kde.org\/announcements\/plasma-5.9.4.php\">Plasma 5.9.4<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kde.org\/announcements\/announce-applications-16.12.3.php\">KDE Applications 16.12.3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3144\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/31d4\/Kubuntu17.04_RC-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Kubuntu Desktop has seen some exciting improvements, with newer versions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qt.io\/\">Qt<\/a>, updates to major packages like <a href=\"https:\/\/krita.org\">Krita<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/kdenlive.org\">Kdenlive<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/new\/\">Firefox<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a>, and\u00a0stability improvements to the Plasma desktop environment.<\/p>\n<p>For a list of other application updates, upgrading notes and known bugs be sure to read our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/ZestyZapus\/ReleaseNotes\/Kubuntu\">release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/getkubuntu\/\">Download<\/a> 17.04 or read about <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/ZestyUpgrades\/Kubuntu\">how to upgrade from 16.10<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codenamed &#8220;Zesty Zapus&#8221;, 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[155,251,252,175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}