The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 21.04 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.21: simple by default, powerful when needed.
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.