{"id":4606,"date":"2021-04-01T22:27:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2021-04-02T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:02:39","slug":"kubuntu-hirsute-hippo-21-04-beta-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/news\/kubuntu-hirsute-hippo-21-04-beta-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubuntu Hirsute Hippo (21.04) Beta released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3de1\/hirsute-preview3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4607\"\/><figcaption>KDE Plasma desktop 5.21 on Kubuntu 21.04<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The beta of Hirsute Hippo (to become 21.04 in April) has now been released, and is available for <a href=\"http:\/\/cdimage.ubuntu.com\/kubuntu\/releases\/21.04\/beta\/\">download<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-releases of the Hirsute Hippo are not recommended for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Anyone needing a stable system<\/li><li>Regular users who are not aware of pre-release issues<\/li><li>Anyone in a production environment with data or workflows that need to be reliable<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>They are, however, recommended for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Regular users who want to help us test by finding, reporting, and\/or fixing bugs<\/li><li>Kubuntu, KDE, and Qt developers<\/li><li>Other Ubuntu flavour developers<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We STRONGLY advise testers to read the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/HirsuteHippo\/Beta\/Kubuntu\"><strong>Kubuntu 21.04 Beta release notes<\/strong><\/a><strong> before installing, and in particular the section on &#8216;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/HirsuteHippo\/Beta\/Kubuntu#Known_issues\"><strong>Known issues<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#8216;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kubuntu is taking part in #UbuntuTestingWeek from 1st to 7th of April, details of which can be found in our <a href=\"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/news\/kubuntu-21-04-testing-week\/\">Kubuntu 21.04 Testing Week<\/a> blog post, and in general for all flavours on the <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.ubuntu.com\/t\/ubuntu-21-04-testing-week\/21519\">Ubuntu Discourse announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also find more information about the entire 21.04 release (base, kernel, graphics etc) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.ubuntu.com\/t\/hirsute-hippo-release-notes\/19221\">main Ubuntu Beta release notes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-announce\/2021-April\/000267.html\">announcement.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beta of Hirsute Hippo (to become 21.04 in April) has now been released, and is available for download. This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours. Pre-releases of the Hirsute Hippo are not recommended for: Anyone needing a stable system Regular users who are not aware of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[169,260,288],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606"}],"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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}