Bringing the Latest KDE Plasma to Ubuntu’s Stable Core Wayland, Kernel 6.17, KDE Plasma 6.4 October 9, 2025 – The Kubuntu team is thrilled to announce the release of Kubuntu 25.10, codenamed “Questing Quokka”! As a community-driven flavor of Ubuntu, Kubuntu continues its mission to deliver the cutting-edge KDE software ecosystem on top of Ubuntu’s rock-solid foundation. This interim release, aligned with Ubuntu’s six-month cycle, packs in the freshest updates to Plasma, Frameworks, and applications, ensuring a smooth, performant desktop experience for millions of users worldwide.

We are pleased to announce that the Plasma 6.3.5 bugfix update is now available for Kubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin in our backports PPA. 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 libraries. Users should always review proposed updates to decide whether they wish to receive them. To upgrade:

The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 25.04 has been released. Codenamed Plucky Puffin, Kubuntu 25.04 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 release features the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop, KDE Gear 24.12.3, kernel 6.14, and many other updated applications and libraries. Kubuntu Plucky Puffin (25.04) released Applications for core day-to-day usage are included and updated, such as Firefox, and LibreOffice.

The beta of Kubuntu Plucky Puffin (to become 25.04 in April) has now been released, and is available for download. This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours. KDE Plasma 6.3 Kubuntu Plucky Puffin Beta Pre-releases of Kubuntu Plucky Puffin are not recommended for: Anyone needing a stable system Regular users who are not aware of pre-release issues Anyone in a production environment with data or workflows that need to be reliable They are, however, recommended for:

The Kubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Kubuntu 24.10, codenamed Oracular Oriole. This release marks a major leap forward for the Kubuntu experience, bringing you the cutting-edge KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment, a suite of updated KDE applications, and a slew of improvements that make this the most modern, smooth, and feature-rich Kubuntu yet. KDE Plasma 6: Elevate Your Desktop Experience The highlight of Kubuntu 24.10 is undoubtedly KDE Plasma 6, the latest and greatest version of the popular desktop environment.

The Kubuntu Team are thrilled to announce significant updates to KubuQA, our streamlined ISO testing tool that has now expanded its capabilities beyond Kubuntu to support Ubuntu and all its other flavors. With these enhancements, KubuQA becomes a versatile resource that ensures a smoother, more intuitive testing process for upcoming releases, including the 24.04 Noble Numbat and the 24.10 Oracular Oriole. What is KubuQA? KubuQA is a specialized tool developed by the Kubuntu Team to simplify the process of ISO testing.

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.