Thanks to our Sponsors
The Kubuntu community is delighted and proud to ship Kubuntu. As a community of passionate contributors we need systems and services that enable us to work together, and host our development tools. Our sponsors page provides details and links to the organisations that have supported us through our development process….
Kubuntu 19.10 is released today
Kubuntu 19 .10 has been released, featuring the beautiful KDE Plasma 5.16 desktop. Codenamed “Eoan Ermine”, Kubuntu 19.10 integrates 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…
Kubuntu Eoan Ermine (19.10) Beta Released
The beta of Eoan Ermine (to become 19.10) has now been released, and is available for download at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/19.10/beta/ This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours. Pre-releases of the Eoan Ermine are not encouraged for: * Anyone needing a stable system* Anyone who is not comfortable running…
Plasma 5.16.90 (Plasma 5.17 Beta) Available for Testing
Are you using Kubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo, our current Stable release? Or are you already running our development builds of the upcoming 19.10 Eoan Ermine? We currently have Plasma 5.16.90 (Plasma 5.17 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 19.04 and 19.10. This is a Beta Plasma release, so testers…
Kubuntu Meets at Milan Akademy 2019
A few Kubuntu Members (and Councillors!) met Thursday before KDE Akademy’s end. We discussed the coming release (will be 19.10) and the upcoming LTS (20.10) – which will be Plasma LTS *and* Qt LTS. This combination will make this LTS super-supported and stable. We also discussed snaps and when Ubuntu…
Fixes for recent KDE desktop vulnerability
As you may have been made aware on some news articles, blogs, and social media posts, a vulnerability to the KDE Plasma desktop was recently disclosed publicly. This occurred without KDE developers/security team or distributions being informed of the discovered vulnerability, or being given any advance notice of the disclosure….
Kubuntu 18.10 reaches end of life
Kubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish was released on October 18th 2018 with 9 months support. As of 18th July 2019, 18.10 reaches ‘end of life’. No more package updates will be accepted to 18.10, and it will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks. The official end of life announcement…
Plasma 5.16 for Disco 19.04 available in Backports PPA
We are pleased to announce that Plasma 5.16, is now available in our backports PPA for Disco 19.04. The release announcement detailing the new features and improvements in Plasma 5.16 can be found here Released along with this new version of Plasma is an update to KDE Frameworks 5.58. (5.59…
Plasma 5.15.90 (Plasma 5.16 Beta) Available for Testing
Are you using Kubuntu 19.04, our current Stable release? Or are you already running our daily development builds? We currently have Plasma 5.15.90 (Plasma 5.16 Beta) available in our Beta PPA for Kubuntu 19.04, and in our 19.10 development release daily live ISO images. For 19.04 Disco Dingo, add the PPA…
Trusty 14.04 LTS end of life, and end of Kubuntu support for Xenial 16.04 LTS
As the newly released Kubuntu 19.04 makes its way into the world, inevitably other things come to their end. Kubuntu 14.04 LTS was released in April 2014, and reaches ‘End of Life’ for support on 25th April 2019. All Kubuntu users should therefore switch to a newer supported release. Upgrades…