Announcing Kubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat
The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 24.04 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.27 simple by default, powerful when needed.
Codenamed “Noble Numbat”, Kubuntu 24.04 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.
Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 6.8-based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.115, KDE Plasma 5.27 and KDE Gear 23.08.
Kubuntu has seen many updates for other applications, both in our default install, and installable from the Ubuntu archive.
Haruna, Krita, Kdevelop, Yakuake, and many many more applications are updated.
Applications for core day-to-day usage are included and updated, such as Firefox, and LibreOffice.
For a list of other application updates, and known bugs be sure to read our release notes.
Download Kubuntu 24.04, or learn how to upgrade from 23.10 or 22.04 LTS.
Note: For upgrades from 23.10, there may a delay of a few hours to days between the official release announcements and the Ubuntu Release Team enabling upgrades.