{"id":4630,"date":"2021-04-22T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:35:02","slug":"kubuntu-21-04-hirsute-hippo-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/news\/kubuntu-21-04-hirsute-hippo-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 21.04 has been released, featuring the &#8216;beautiful&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/plasma\/5\/5.21.0\/\">KDE Plasma 5.21<\/a>: simple by default, powerful when needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Codenamed \u201cHirsute Hippo\u201d, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 5.11-based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.80, <a href=\"https:\/\/kde.org\/announcements\/plasma\/5\/5.21.0\/\">KDE Plasma 5.21<\/a> and KDE Release Service Applications 20.12.3<\/p>\n\n\n\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\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kubuntu has seen many updates for other applications, both in our default install, and installable from the Ubuntu archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Krita, Kdevelop, Yakuake, and many many more applications are updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications for core day to day usage are included and updated, such as Firefox, VLC and Libreoffice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a list of other application updates, and known bugs be sure to read our <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/HirsuteHippo\/ReleaseNotes\/Kubuntu\">release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/getkubuntu\/\">Download Kubuntu 21.04<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/HirsuteUpgrades\/Kubuntu\">learn how to upgrade from 20.10<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 21.04 has been released, featuring the &#8216;beautiful&#8217; KDE Plasma 5.21: simple by default, powerful when needed. Codenamed \u201cHirsute Hippo\u201d, Kubuntu 21.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,&#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":[289,175,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630"}],"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=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}