Kubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster Released
The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 23.04 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.27 simple by default, powerful when needed. Codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, Kubuntu 23.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,…
Kubuntu Lunar Lobster (23.04) Beta Released
The beta of Kubuntu Lunar Lobster (to become 23.04 in April) has now been released, and is available for download. This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours. Pre-releases of Kubuntu Lunar Lobster are not recommended for: Anyone needing a stable system Regular users who are not aware…
Kubuntu Manual 22.04.2 Release
Hello everyone! It’s a great day with a new release of the Kubuntu Manual to match the recently-released Kubuntu 22.04.2 update. Thank you for the community members who provided feedback and filed bug reports to our GitHub project! You can find the new releases either on the GitHub releases page…
Plasma 5.27.2 for Kubuntu 22.10 available via PPA
We have had many requests to make Plasma 5.27.2 available in our backports PPA for Kubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu). As usual with our PPAs, there is the caveat that the PPA may receive additional updates and new releases of KDE Plasma, Gear (Apps), and Frameworks, plus other apps and required…
Flatpaks and Kubuntu
Kubuntu is and has always been “Ubuntu” combined with the greatest software from the KDE Community. Prior to 23.04 and aligned with Debian packaging, Flatpak and Snap package sources were included as installable options with each source requiring its own set of commands and repositories. However, enabling both sources caused…
Kubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Update Available
The second point release update to Kubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) is out now. This contains all the bug-fixes added to 22.04 since its first point release in August 2022. Users of 22.04 can run the normal update procedure to get these bug-fixes. Kubuntu Manual 22.04.2 should be out next…
Plasma 5.27 Beta available for testing
Are you using Kubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu, our current stable release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)? We currently have Plasma 5.25.90 (Plasma 5.27 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 22.10 and for the 23.04 development series. However this is…
Kubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu Released
The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 22.10 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.25 simple by default, powerful when needed. Codenamed “Kinetic Kudu”, Kubuntu 22.10 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality,…
Kubuntu Kinetic Kudu (22.10) Beta Released
The beta of Kubuntu Kinetic Kudu (to become 22.10 in October) has now been released, and is available for download. This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours. Pre-releases of Kubuntu Kinetic Kudu are not recommended for: Anyone needing a stable system Regular users who are not aware…
Plasma 5.26 Beta available for testing
Are you using Kubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, our current stable LTS release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 22.10 Kinetic Kudu? We currently have Plasma 5.25.90 (Plasma 5.26 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 22.04 and for the 22.10 development series. However this…