Kubuntu Council Elects 3 Councillors
Members of the Kubuntu Council are responsible for considering proposals made by the wider Kubuntu community. The council formalises and ratifies proposals, then votes to obtain an outcome which directs the course of progress for Kubuntu. On 11 September I (Rick Timmis) will have been a councilor for the Kubuntu…
Plasma 5.25 for Jammy 22.04 available via PPA
We have had many requests to make Plasma 5.25 available in our backports PPA for Jammy Jellyfish 22.04. Providing backports of new Plasma versions to a LTS release always must be an ‘opt-in’ process, however we are aware that many of our users now are accustomed to adding our backports…
Kubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Update Available
The first 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 release in April 2022. Users of 22.04 can run the normal update procedure to get these bug-fixes. The first point release is also significant because…
Plasma 5.25 Beta available for testing
Are you using Kubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish, our current Stable release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 22.10 Kinetic Kudu? We currently have Plasma 5.24.90 (Plasma 5.25 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 22.04, and in the Ubuntu archive and daily ISO build…
Kubuntu 22.04 LTS Released
The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 22.04 LTS has been released, featuring the beautiful KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS: simple by default, powerful when needed. Codenamed “Jammy Jellyfish”, Kubuntu 22.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest Free Software technologies into…
Plasma 5.24.3 available on Kubuntu 21.10
We are pleased to announce that Plasma 5.24.3 is now available in our backports PPA for Kubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri). The release announcement detailing the new features and improvements in Plasma 5.24.3 can be found here. To upgrade: Add the following repository to your software sources list: ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports or if…
Plasma 5.24.2 available on Kubuntu 21.10
We are pleased to announce that Plasma 5.24.2 is now available in our backports PPA for Kubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri). The release announcement detailing the new features and improvements in Plasma 5.24.2 can be found here. To upgrade: Add the following repository to your software sources list: ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports or if…
Plasma 5.24 available on Kubuntu 21.10
We are pleased to announce that Plasma 5.24 is now available in our backports PPA for Kubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri). The release announcement detailing the new features and improvements in Plasma 5.24 can be found here. To upgrade: Add the following repository to your software sources list: ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports or if…
Kubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) Reaches End of Life
Kubuntu Hirsute Hippo was announced on April 22, 2021 with 9 months support. As of January 20, 2022, 21.04 reached ‘end of life’. No more package updates will be accepted to 21.04, and it will be archived in the coming weeks. You can read the official end of life announcement…
Plasma 5.23 available for Kubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) in backports PPA
We are pleased to announce that Plasma 5.23.1 is now available in our backports PPA for Kubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri). The release announcement detailing the new features and improvements in Plasma 5.23 can be found here. To upgrade: Add the following repository to your software sources list: ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports or if…