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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka reached end of life

This version of Ubuntu, which was released on October 2025, has reached its end of life period. Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka brought Linux 6.17, systemd 257.9, .NET 10.0, and various new versions of different packages. It’s a short term release that is supported for nine months, as opposed to long-term releases.

This means that the following will happen:

• Ubuntu 25.10 will no longer receive any new versions of packages.
• Security updates for different packages will also no longer be made for this version of Ubuntu.
• Official support will no longer cover this version of Ubuntu.

In order to continue receiving official support and new package updates, including security updates that will be distributed after July 2026, consult one of the upgrade paths, depending on the type of installation:

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is supported for 15 years total, including 5 years of mainstream support, which will include point releases that will be unveiled in the future, such as v26.04.1, which is expected to arrive in the second half of this year. We recommend that you upgrade your systems using 25.10 to this version to continue receiving updates and official support.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will reach its end of life soon

This version of Ubuntu, which was released on October 2025, is now nearing the end of life period. Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka brought Linux 6.17, systemd 257.9, .NET 10.0, and various new versions of different packages. It’s a short term release that is supported for nine months, as opposed to long-term releases.

According to an announcement made on the mailing list, the support period is now becoming closer to the finish, with July 9th, 2026 being the day that Ubuntu 25.10 will no longer be supported.

This means that the following will happen:

• After the mentioned end of support date, Ubuntu 25.10 will no longer receive any new versions of packages.
• Security updates for different packages will also no longer be made for this version of Ubuntu.
• Official support will no longer cover this version of Ubuntu.

In order to continue receiving official support and new package updates, including security updates that will be distributed after July 2026, consult one of the upgrade paths, depending on the type of installation:

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is supported for 15 years total, including 5 years of mainstream support, which will include point releases that will be unveiled in the future, such as v26.04.1, which is expected to arrive in the second half of this year. We recommend that you upgrade your systems using 25.10 to this version to continue receiving updates and official support.

Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray Snapshot 1 released!

Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu documentation site.

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

• Ubuntu
• Edubuntu
• Kubuntu
• Lubuntu
• Xubuntu
• Ubuntu Budgie
• Ubuntu MATE
• Ubuntu Unity
• Ubuntu Cinnamon
• Ubuntu Kylin (麒麟)
• Ubuntu Studio

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Beta is out!

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Beta is now released as of today for users who are curious to see the progress of this version of Ubuntu due to release on April 23rd. This is to ensure that high quality is met when the final version gets released to the public.

This version of Ubuntu features GNOME 50 that has made user experience more natural and intuitive, with many improvements to come, such as:

• Improved file manager app enables faster performance and more reliability, with faster thumbnail loading and reduced memory usage.
• Improved calendar app enables productivity improvements, with the major feature addition being the attendees list.
• Improved settings app receives several welcome improvements, including the “First day of the week” option for Date and Time.

In addition to that, GNOME 50 also features significantly improved remote desktop capabilities, thanks to a subset of changes made. The new hardware acceleration support, which uses Vulkan and VA-API, enables a major performance boost. Lag has been reduced to make remote sessions much smoother.

So, try out the beta version now by clicking on this link! Beware that beta releases might contain bugs and issues.

🤔 Je tourne depuis une bonne semaine avec #Ubuntu2510 sur mon #Asus #Zenbook.

Tout fonctionne bien, sauf une chose : je note des pics d'utilisation CPU par moments, jusqu'à 80%, pendant quelques secondes (et ça "freeze" le bureau Gnome).

C'est toujours lorsqu'une vidéo est lue, que ce soit depuis Youtube (donc en streaming) ou depuis Totem (vidéo téléchargée). Lorsque je lis les mêmes vidéos avec @FreeTube ou depuis VLC, aucun pic CPU à noter.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Flatpak issue fix is on the way!

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka was released a week ago, and it brought many new exciting features. Sadly, it appears that it has broken Flatpak support, as users were encountering errors when trying to install any Flatpak application, and bug reports, such as this one, were being landed to Launchpad.

When Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka was released, users have discovered that the installation of any Flatpak application fails with error messages stating that it’s unable to unmount revokefs-fuse, which is a fatal bug. Additionally, AppArmor generates messages that talk about permission denial of file accesses in /run/mount/utab and its related files, which are /run/mount/utab.*.

The error messages that are generated when trying to install any Flatpak application are:

Warning: Could not unmount revokefs-fuse filesystem at /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-4EB3B3/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default-FAB3B3: Child process exited with code 1Warning: Could not unmount revokefs-fuse filesystem at /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-4EB3B3/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default-K8HAC3: Child process exited with code 1Warning: Could not unmount revokefs-fuse filesystem at /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-4EB3B3/org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264-D0P4B3: Child process exited with code 1Warning: Could not unmount revokefs-fuse filesystem at /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-4EB3B3/org.gnome.Platform.Locale-QP83B3: Child process exited with code 1Warning: Could not unmount revokefs-fuse filesystem at /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-4EB3B3/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Yaru-dark-M2N7B3: Child process exited with code 1error: Failed to install org.gnome.Platform: Could not unmount revokefs-fuse filesystem at /var/tmp/flatpak-cache-4EB3B3/org.gnome.Platform-EM6KC3: Child process exited with code 1

The bug will be fixed soon, but the fix has landed to the -proposed repository pocket with version 5.0.0~alpha1-0ubuntu8.1 of apparmor. Before, the version that came with the release was 5.0.0~alpha1-0ubuntu8.

When this fixed version was installed, people began verifying that the fix actually worked, and it looks like that the fix worked, as Flatpak installations seemed to have succeeded, and that the resulting applications were running fine. However, AppArmor still generates denial messages related to DAC_OVERRIDE and SETUID capabilities.

If the fix lands, you’ll be able to install and run Flatpak applications on your system.

#2510 #Flatpak #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Released!

The final release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka is now live! All development has been finalized, and the release team has made an official announcement of the release of this version of Ubuntu as you can see here.

Upgrades to Questing Quokka will now include what’s new for this release, such as GNOME 49 and updated software, which is simplified as in below. You can find the release notes here.

This version of Ubuntu provides the following:

• GNOME 49 will be provided as the default desktop environment.
• Linux 6.17 will be used, even if it is at its seventh release candidate for this version of Ubuntu.
• The system initialization program, systemd, has been updated to version v257.9.
• Rust-ification of the system has started, with sudo-rs being the default sudo provider and rust-coreutils being the Rust version of the core utilities.
• New hardware support, including the new Intel Arc for the Core Ultra Xe3 graphics card support.
• APT v3.1 is now the default package manager, and the new solver is in use.

To upgrade your system to 25.10, either open the terminal and run do-release-upgrade as root, or open Software Updates and start the upgrade. Make sure that your packages are upgraded first and that you’ve enabled non-LTS upgrades.

To download this awesome release, check out the following links:

• Ubuntu 25.10 desktop
• Kubuntu 25.10 desktop
• Lubuntu 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Budgie 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Kylin (麒麟) 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu MATE 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Studio 25.10 desktop
• Ubuntu Unity 25.10 desktop
• Xubuntu 25.10 desktop

Are you excited?

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Get Ready for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka!

The final release is just around the corner, and Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will make its official debut tomorrow as per the official release schedule for this version, which you can access here. All development has been finalized, and the release team is preparing a set of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka images to be publicly available for download.

The release notes for this version of Ubuntu is undergoing finalization, which means that upgrades to Questing Quokka will now include what’s new for this release. You can find the release notes here.

This version of Ubuntu provides the following:

• GNOME 49 will be provided as the default desktop environment.
• Linux 6.17 will be used, even if it is at its seventh release candidate for this version of Ubuntu.
• The system initialization program, systemd, has been updated to version v257.9.
• Rust-ification of the system has started, with sudo-rs being the default sudo provider and rust-coreutils being the Rust version of the core utilities.
• New hardware support, including the new Intel Arc for the Core Ultra Xe3 graphics card support.
• APT v3.1 is now the default package manager, and the new solver is in use.

The Foundations System team is now formed that is responsible for maintaining and delivering the base components for the system. You can learn more about this for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka here.

Are you ready for the release tomorrow?

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu “dangerous” images are in production!

The “dangerous” daily build images for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, where the team publishes DVD images that represent daily builds of Ubuntu 25.10 but with snaps being updated to their latest versions using the edge channel instead of the more stable one, are now under production! The dangerous daily build images can be downloaded, but be mindful about their unstable nature of those images.

“Why are those images created?” This is a question that you’re asking yourselves when you learn about this change. Those images are created to help developers that work on the seeded snaps for Ubuntu. This is to achieve maximum efficiency during the development of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and future Ubuntu versions to come biannually.

This apparently happened during the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) FDE “spike” that happened earlier this year, when the daily build images started providing snaps that were update to their latest “bleeding edge” versions to help developers.

To help reduce the workload, we expect that two kinds of daily build images be built: one that was always built with snaps in their stable versions, and one that is the “dangerous” images that we talked about earlier.

You can read the official newsletter to learn more about such images here.

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Beta is Out!

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Beta is now released as of today for users who are curious to see the progress of this version of Ubuntu due to release on October 9th. This is to ensure that high quality is met when the final version gets released to the public.

This version of Ubuntu features GNOME 49 that has made user experience more natural and intuitive, because it introduced new features, such as the new video player that replaces Totem and the new document viewer.

In addition to that, GNOME 49 also features a redesigned calendar application that makes organizing events much easier than never before. It also allows you to export the calendar events to an .ICS file for easier export.

So, try out the beta version now by clicking on this link! Beware that beta releases might contain bugs and issues.

#2510 #beta #Linux #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Tech #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #UbuntuBeta

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Beta is close!

We are getting closer to the beta release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which was scheduled for the final release on October 9th. The beta version will be out later this week, and it has been scheduled on September 18th. The Beta Freeze has commenced as of today, along with the hardware enablement freeze, and only critical fixes that are important for the beta release may go inside the beta image that will be prepared late Thursday.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will be the last non-LTS release before the next LTS release, which is set to be released on April 2026. This means that you’ll be able to test the development version of the next LTS when the development itself starts, which is expected a week after the Questing Quokka final release.

In the quality assurance site for Ubuntu, the set of testing ISOs, which were built yesterday, is now available for you to test. You can find those builds below.

If the quality assurance results are all green, this version will become the beta version. Else, re-builds will be needed with the necessary changes to fix any last-minute bugs that may have been found.

As for the queue freeze, this freeze lasts until the development of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR begins and Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka begins. All seeded packages will now need a spot-check and a review from the release team member before the newer versions will be in the beta.

You’ll then be able to download the beta version once it becomes available, and we’ll let you know when the beta releases this Thursday.

Are you excited for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka?

#2510 #beta #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use Linux 6.17

Canonical has planned for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, to use the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel, which is currently at its fifth release candidate. This was done ahead of the kernel freeze that will start on September 25th, but not before the kernel feature freeze starts tomorrow.

According to Launchpad, the Linux source package has been updated to 6.17.0-3.3, which was published on September 5th of this year at the time that Linux 6.17 RC4 was still the current release candidate. This means that this plan went to fruition as of this date, and the migration from Linux 6.16 has become successful, even if Linux 6.17 has two release candidates left.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Beta will be released on September 18th with this version of the kernel being used. Afterwards, future versions of Linux 6.17 will be used as the Ubuntu release support goes on for nine months, which means that Ubuntu 25.10 will become EOL on July 2026.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR development will start after Ubuntu Questing gets released, and this is expected to start on October 16th.

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 4 released!

As we’ve indicated earlier, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, 2025, has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu Discourse forum.

The fourth and the last snapshot has been released, highlighting the changes between the previous snapshot (July 31st) and the current one (August 28th). On September 18th, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will reach the Beta stage.

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR, will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

• Ubuntu
• Edubuntu
• Kubuntu
• Lubuntu
• Xubuntu
• Ubuntu Budgie
• Ubuntu MATE
• Ubuntu Unity
• Ubuntu Cinnamon
• Ubuntu Kylin (麒麟)
• Ubuntu Studio

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu reveals the official wallpapers of Questing Quokka!

Two months before the official stable release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka prior to the development of the next LTS version to be released on April 2026, the Ubuntu artwork team has revealed the official wallpapers of the next version of Ubuntu. They called it “A Journey of a Thousand Smiles.” You can see the official artwork below:

In addition to the official wallpapers that are revealed above, whose description can be found in the official blog entry, several wallpapers that are chosen to be winners of the competition can be found here:

Those wallpapers will land to the final version of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka scheduled for October 9th.

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update #wallpaper

What are Ubuntu “dangerous” images?

Today, the Ubuntu Release Management Team has published their first monthly newsletter on Discourse to make more people aware of the news of Ubuntu development and release each month. August and July were very interesting when it comes to Ubuntu, because Ubuntu 24.04.3 was released, alongside the Oracular Oriole end of life.

Alongside these changes is the “dangerous” daily build images for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka where the team publishes DVD images that represent daily builds of Ubuntu 25.10, but with one significant key feature: all snaps will be updated to their latest versions using the edge channel instead of the more stable one.

“Why are those images created?” This is a question that you’re asking yourselves when you learn about this change. Those images are created to help developers that work on the seeded snaps for Ubuntu. This is to achieve maximum efficiency during the development of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and future Ubuntu versions to come biannually.

This apparently happened during the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) FDE “spike” that happened earlier this year, when the daily build images started providing snaps that were update to their latest “bleeding edge” versions to help developers.

To help reduce the workload, we expect that two kinds of daily build images be built: one that was always built with snaps in their stable versions, and one that is the “dangerous” images that we talked about earlier. This is beneficial for future spikes, and one of them, which is expected to start next Monday, will focus on the desktop prompting-client.

You can read the official newsletter here.

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka enters the feature freeze!

As of today, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka has entered the feature freeze according to the release schedule that you can see here. Also, you can consult the release notes that has the tentative versions of the major toolsets and the packages, since the feature freeze, here.

Generally, all packages now have to go through the bug fixing stage, which means that there will be no features being added to them to ensure stability of the release, which will happen this October. According to the mailing list entry, no new features will be added to any package, and only bug fixes will be allowed.

However, there are some packages that can make use of the feature freeze exceptions. In this case, developers can file the exception request by following the instructions in this link.

We are looking forward for the final release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka!

#2510 #FeatureFreeze #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 3 released!

As we’ve indicated earlier, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, 2025, has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu Discourse forum.

The third snapshot has been released, highlighting the changes between the previous snapshot (June 26th) and the current one (July 31st).

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR, will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

• Ubuntu
• Edubuntu
• Kubuntu
• Lubuntu
• Xubuntu
• Ubuntu Budgie
• Ubuntu MATE
• Ubuntu Unity
• Ubuntu Cinnamon
• Ubuntu Kylin (麒麟)
• Ubuntu Studio

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10’s TPM-based encryption is experimental

The TPM-based disk encryption, which is set up during the installation of Ubuntu 25.10, is considered to be an experimental feature that allows you to encrypt your Ubuntu installation using a hardware-based backend, called TPM 2.0, that usually ships with the latest motherboards. TPM ensures that the security of your computer system is not compromised before the operating system starts, which gives you greater security.

Starting from Ubuntu 25.10, this kind of encryption is considered experimental, because there are still some of the unsolved bugs that cause data loss, depending on the severity of the bug. However, future work on this feature might promote it to the production-ready status. Currently, it’s not suitable for production use.

More fine-grained checks have now been placed to ensure that enabling TPM/FDE can be done safely, such as vulnerability checks, TPM version checks, and configuration checks. If all conditions to have a trusted full disk encryption are met, you’ll be able to install Ubuntu 25.10 with FDE and TPM.

Disk encryption will be done in place as soon as the installation starts, creating a tight integration with your TPM to ensure that your data is secured at the hardware level.

There will be much more progress being done to this feature in this version of Ubuntu and beyond, so check the progress for the TPM/FDE implementation here.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will be released on October 9th, 2025.

Photo by Alena Darmel

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10 lightens the Raspberry Pi images

Currently, Ubuntu builds the Raspberry Pi images based on the full desktop package set, which includes essentials like Thunderbird, Transmission, Rhythmbox, Shotwell, and LibreOffice. However, it takes up more space than the desktop-base package set, which provides a more minimal set while saving space at around 777 MB.

Some of the essential applications will no longer be provided with the Raspberry Pi images that will be built later, and this is done to save some space in the final installation. However, desktop users can easily re-install those packages by searching for their respective applications in the Ubuntu store. You can also install those packages using the terminal emulator.

This was done due to build issues surrounding the Raspberry Pi images, which occurred due to the desktop package set being bigger than the minimal desktop-base package set. It was reported against the ubuntu-meta package in Launchpad #2103808. It was initially going to be done in Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin, but later moved to the Ubuntu 25.10 cycle due to the bug report timing.

The following uncompressed sizes clarify the space savings:

• Original size: 9312377344 bytes (~8.7GB)
• Slimmed size: 8497179136 bytes (~7.9GB)

The ubuntu-meta package has been updated to version 1.554 to satisfy this change, and Raspberry Pi users will no longer face disk space problems.

In addition to that, the release notes have been updated to include a warning in which the upgrade operation from Plucky to Questing may remove “common” applications, but can easily be reinstalled.

#2103808 #2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Raspberry #RaspberryPi #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 2 released!

As we’ve indicated earlier, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, 2025, has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu Discourse forum.

The second snapshot has been released, highlighting the changes between the previous snapshot (May 29th) and the current one (June 26th).

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR, will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

• Ubuntu
• Edubuntu
• Kubuntu
• Lubuntu
• Xubuntu
• Ubuntu Budgie
• Ubuntu MATE
• Ubuntu Unity
• Ubuntu Cinnamon
• Ubuntu Kylin (麒麟)
• Ubuntu Studio

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

#2510 #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update

Ubuntu 25.10 removes support for GNOME on Xorg

Starting from the upcoming release of Ubuntu, the Questing Quokka, your Ubuntu session will be running under the newer Wayland protocol instead of the more ancient X11 server. The Ubuntu session will become exclusive to Wayland to embrace modernized desktop experience, while making sure that your computer becomes more secure than before. GNOME 49 will follow the same path by taking out the Xorg server support.

This was done one cycle ahead of the next LTS that will be released next April, which will revolutionize your Ubuntu desktop with many new and exciting features that will land there.

In the past, the Wayland support has improved significantly, reducing the need for X11 to achieve stability. Wayland now offers better support for NVIDIA graphics cards, which is a huge plus for those using such graphics cards, especially the GeForce RTX 50 flagship series. Wayland also offers better graphics stack isolation, improved touch screen support, and enhanced high DPI support for users with high-quality monitors.

Starting from Ubuntu 25.10, you won’t be able to fall back to Ubuntu on Xorg. This means that you won’t be able to use the older Xorg protocol on the GNOME desktop. This aligns with how ancient Xorg has become, but that doesn’t mean that Xorg is going away, because there are still a large amount of computers that still require the ancient protocol, such as specialized applications.

If you’re still relying on Xorg, you can use a Ubuntu flavor that doesn’t rely on GNOME.

#2510 #GNOME #GNOMEOnX11 #GNOMEWayland #news #Questing #QuestingQuokka #Quokka #Tech #Technology #Ubuntu #Ubuntu2510 #Ubuntu2510Questing #Ubuntu2510QuestingQuokka #Ubuntu2510Quokka #update #Wayland #X11 #Xorg

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Snapshot 1 released!

As we’ve indicated earlier, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, 2025, has four development snapshots to help you test this version of Ubuntu without having to rely on daily builds. This was done as part of the official plan that the release team have released on the official Ubuntu Discourse forum.

The official plan stated that the Ubuntu release team wanted to release Ubuntu every six months, while relying on the modern software engineering practices. More automated testing will be made to ensure that future releases, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR, will have next-to-zero problems that may cause a delay of the release. Alongside this, the release process will be refined to achieve the goal of little to no human intervention when dealing with releases.

The Ubuntu release team describe the snapshot releases as not production-ready releases, but as testable milestones that allow you to try out the upcoming version of Ubuntu without having to wait until the official release.

You can find those snapshots here:

• Ubuntu
• Edubuntu
• Kubuntu
• Lubuntu
• Xubuntu
• Ubuntu Budgie
• Ubuntu MATE
• Ubuntu Unity
• Ubuntu Cinnamon
• Ubuntu Kylin (麒麟)
• Ubuntu Studio

Why not try out this snapshot to get early access to new features and to report bugs?

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Rust Coreutils “uutils” v0.1 released!

The developers behind the Rust coreutils, called uutils, have reached a major milestone with the release of v0.1.0. This comes after the last release, which was v0.0.30. This version is now on GitHub, which you can check out below.

This version of uutils contains many interesting changes done to the system utilities, including cp, ls, and others. The SELinux support has been added to cp, ls, mkdir, mknod, mkfifo, install, and stat for systems that are security oriented. This makes sure that systems with this coreutils implementation can now enjoy better security with SELinux enabled, especially when SELinux is enforcing.

In addition to that, the speed has been improved to match and possibly exceed the legacy GNU coreutils performance. You can now notice the improved speed in commands like cat, ls, wc, tail, seq, and more.

Thanks to many commits and contributions done to the Rust coreutils project, it has witnessed many changes done to various commands, such as date allowing negative date offsets, echo allowing double hyphens, and print fixing octal escape parsing.

In addition to that, the test suite compatibility has seen increasing number of successes. While 0.0.30 has 507 passes; 41 skips; and 69 fails, version 0.1.0 has 522 passes; 31 skips; and 65 passes.

As a result, as future versions get released, compatibility with the older GNU coreutils increases. This is evidenced by the increasing number of succeeding unit tests for the Rust coreutils project, especially when it comes to SELinux-related tests.

You can consult the official website of Rust coreutils below.

What about Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is planning to ship uutils to replace the older GNU coreutils as part of the broader plan, called “Oxidizing Ubuntu.” Ubuntu 25.10 will be the first version of Ubuntu that will use this coreutils implementation to ensure that your Ubuntu system becomes both more secure and quicker; furthermore, your productivity will increase as the improved performance becomes prevalent in this release.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use the Rust coreutils during the development cycle, along with the Rust implementation of sudo called rs-sudo. In later development milestones, Ubuntu will use the findutils and the diffutils projects from the master uutils project.

You will be able to download the stable release of this Ubuntu version on October 9th, 2025.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use Linux 6.17!

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use the upcoming Linux 6.17, which will come after Linux 6.16 that succeeds the next week’s Linux 6.15 stable release. This is done according to the official Canonical forum post that was made today, backed by their commitment to providing the latest hardware support by using the latest Linux kernel release that was released by the feature freeze. This allows Canonical to use the latest release candidate of the Linux 6.17 kernel that is to be out in October according to the prediction list.

To recap, the following release milestones will be:

• September 11, 2025 (UTC): Kernel Feature Freeze
• September 15, 2025 (UTC): Beta Freeze / HWE Freeze
• September 25, 2025 (UTC): Kernel Freeze
• October 2, 2025 (UTC): Final Freeze
• October 9, 2025 (UTC): Final Release

However, the team advises that the timeline is tentative, suggesting that there may be changes to be done. However, the changes to the release schedule are unlikely to occur.

Ubuntu 25.10 is the upcoming release of this operating system, which should be out in October 9th.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will improve your desktop experience

Last month, Ubuntu 25.10 development had started by updating the Ubuntu repository servers to serve new information for this upcoming version of Ubuntu, which is the final interim release before the next Long Term Support (LTS) release, which will be Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR. The roadmap has been finally shared on the Ubuntu Discourse forums to let you know about how this version of Ubuntu will progress.

According to the roadmap, the following key features of Ubuntu 25.10 (our curation) will be:

• Desktop Experience
  • GNOME 49 will land to this version of Ubuntu to bring in some of Wayland-related improvements, especially when you’re on a computer that uses NVIDIA graphics cards, the latest being NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50xx series.
  • Loupe will be used by default as a new image editor that will streamline your user experience. Meanwhile, a new terminal emulator, Ptyxis (or GNOME Prompt), will be used in lieu of the older GNOME Terminal, all under the GNOME umbrella.
  • If you are gaming on Ubuntu, the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) feature has been added to Mutter to improve your gaming performance on compatible monitors, such as the latest Samsung Odyssey gaming monitors.
  • RISC-V users will be able to experience the full Ubuntu Desktop for the first time, especially as this processor architecture gains in popularity. Basic applications, such as Mozilla Firefox, will be usable there.
• TPM-backed FDE
  • Full disk encryption will be backed by your TPM chip that is either discrete or integrated, especially when you’re using TPM 2.0. The recovery key management will be available to you, where you’ll be able to view, save, and print your recovery key during the installation stage. You can regenerate the key later, in case you lost it. You will be able to use your PIN.
  • In addition to that, firmware updates, especially the BIOS ones, may trigger a “hardware change” detection mechanism, which will cause your system to prompt you for your recovery key to unlock your hard drive again. Taking this into account, the firmware updater will give you a warning message when you proceed to upgrade the firmware. BIOS updates will only be done if you’ve enabled UEFI capsule and you’re booting Ubuntu in UEFI mode.
• Ubuntu Desktop Documentation
  • Starting from this version of Ubuntu, the documentation will be refined to diverge from the traditional and hard-to-follow generic documentation to the more refined docs to allow end users to learn more about the Ubuntu Desktop more efficiently.
• Accessibility
  • While accessibility remains a core part of Ubuntu’s mission, the Ubuntu team is preparing to follow all the rules by the deadline of the European Accessibility Act (EAA) enforcement, which will be in June 2025.
  • Accessibility features will be improved to make sure that everyone will be able to use the Ubuntu desktop.

The release timeline will be as follows:

• Feature Freeze: August 14, 2025
• User Interface Freeze: September 4, 2025
• Beta Release: September 18, 2025
• Final Release: October 9, 2025

Stay tuned for more Ubuntu updates!

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Ubuntu 25.10 will include sudo-rs

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will include sudo-rs by default as part of a plan to use more Rust-based core system components, such as the Rust CoreUtils “uutils” that will replace the standard GNU CoreUtils written in C. According to the MemorySafety blog, both sudo and su have been rewritten in Rust to ensure that they are memory safe, in comparison to the standard ones that are written in the 1980s.

Earlier, the Rust-based CoreUtils is used as part of a plan that allows Canonical to migrate from the older CoreUtils to the newer one to ensure memory safety. Although there is a drawback involving uutils’ bigger size in comparison to the GNU version, memory safety is more important. Because of this downside, it’s possible that the Docker containers may still use the traditional GNU CoreUtils.

Currently, sudo-rs is maintained by Trifecta Tech Foundation, which announced that Canonical confirmed the sudo-rs migration. This non-profit organization has also announced that this move was “part of a broader effort by Canonical to improve the resilience and maintainability of core system components.”

All this is part of the broader plan that will make sure that Ubuntu uses the Rust infrastructure.

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