Just a week since the last 4.6 version, the lightweight Audacious music player announced new 4.6.1 bug-fix release.

The new version of this free open-source application adopted XDG cache dir, added new Georgian translation, and fixed some bugs.

Improved Flatpak / Snap support

First, the new Audacious 4.6.1 now stores temporary files in XDG cache dir (.cache or .var/app/APPID/cache) instead of system /tmp directory. This is useful for Flatpak or Snap packages that run in sandbox environment.

For security reason, Flatpak and Snap packages do not have access to system /tmp, instead they have their own private /tmp directory.

The previous Audacious versions however use the host’s /tmp directory causing some features, such as album cover display not working in MPRIS (e.g., system tray media control, or Gnome 50 lock screen) for sandboxed apps due to permission access issue.

With the new version, the XDG cache dir is in use so that all the app packages have permission access to the temporary files for everything working properly.

Flatpak or Snap package previously do not display album covers in MRPIS

Fix for Ubuntu PPA

For Ubuntu and Linux Mint users who use the PPA package, the last 4.6 version was built improperly that may run into core dump crash or dependency issue.

The reason is that I built with the updated Ubuntu’s packaging rule from 26.04. It changed library names (e.g., libaudgui5 -> libaudgui6, libaudqt2t64 -> libaudqt3), but I forgot to add rule to automatically remove the old ones during the package upgrading process, thus you may have multi-versions of the libraries installed at the same time causing the issue.

To “fix” the issue, the new 4.6.1 version increased the .so and plugin ABI version numbers, so even you have both 4.6 and 4.6.1 installed at the same time in the same package format (though the PPA shall now avoid the case), audacious will continue working as they use the libraries in different versions.

Other changes in Audacious 4.6.1 include:

• Add Georgian translation.
• Support audio files with embedded lyrics in more cases.
• Fix building on system using musl.

Install Audacious 4.6.1

For the official release note and source tarballs, go to Audacious website via the link below:

Besides building from the source, there’s also community maintained Flatpak package and Snap package (available in Ubuntu App Center) which are NOT updated at the moment of writing.

And, the unofficial PPA (and synced with this one) has updated with the new package for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 26.04.

To add the PPA, and install Audacious 4.6.1 in Ubuntu, run the commands below one by one in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
sudo apt update
sudo apt install audacious audacious-plugins

For any reason, you may purge PPA and downgrade Audacious to the stock versions by running command:

sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

Or, just remove the music player (useful for a clean re-install) by running command:

sudo apt install audacious audacious-plugins-data --autoremove

And, feel free to leave comment below or send me email if you still have issue for the package installed from PPA.

GNOME 50, the default desktop for Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44, announced its second maintenance update one day ago.

The new small version of this popular Linux desktop environment introduced numerous bug-fixes, fixes and improvements for NVIDIA support, as well as its Nautilus file manager and built-in screenshot tool.

First, GNOME 50.2 fixed that the graphical login manager GDM failed to properly terminate conflicting graphical sessions started outside of GDM (e.g. ThinLinc, TigerVNC). It also fixed plymouth (the boot animation) hanging indefinitely on headless systems or systems without monitors, which prevent the system from booting into graphical login screen.

It as well fixed loading X11 sessions (e.g., XFCE4, MATE) because GDM would incorrectly set the session type to Wayland.

And, the session/a11y menu in the login screen now accept both left and right mouse clicks which can be useful for left-handed mouse users.

For Intel and AMD with VA-API hardware acceleration implementation, the built-in screen recording previously would produce 18x larger H.264 video files at 4k, due to missing rate control parameters with no visible quality benefit.

The new version added rate-control=vbr, bitrate=2048, target-percentage=50 to both VA-API pipelines which significantly reduce the file sizes for 4K screen recording (VA-API H.264).

Also for the built-in screenshot/screencast tool, it fixed that the mouse pointer and handle center (for drag resizing area selection) didn’t align, making hard to extend to the extreme corners for the screen, though you may drag moving (instead of resizing) the selection area to workaround.

For Nautilus, aka GNOME Files, the new version added search entry in the file’s “Open With” context menu, allowing to quickly find out that application that you want.

It now supports opening multiple files with different extensions (e.g., a.jpg, b.png, c.webp) via “Open With” dialog, instead of silently silently fail when confirming an application selection.

And, it fixed possible crash with properties window, thumbnails not appearing in remote locations, and potential crash in list view.

Add Search Entry in open with dialog

Instead of ignore primary GPU device that does not support KMS (or KMS initialization fails), GNOME will now try configuring it in headless mode, which is useful when user want to use the GPU as render-only device or disable the display capability at boot time.

For NVIDIA GPU, this version fixed a deadlock issue that can freeze GNOME desktop or prevent the system from waking up from sleep. It also fixed the desktop animations stuttering issue with some driver versions (e.g., nvidia-595), and black screen on some NVIDIA GPUs for GNOME Remote Desktop.

Other changes in GNOME 50.2 include:

• Improve Device Security and Wellbeing labels display for mobile screen.
• Fix missing notification for USB flash drive auto-mount.
• Fit on-screen keyboard better on very small screens.
• Fix glitch in quick settings with wrapped text in menu.
• Fix moving both maximized and minimized window to a different monitor.
• Fix drag’n’drop potential fail and exit destination application.

For more about GNOME 50.2, see the announcement in Gnome Discourse.

Get GNOME 50.2

Fedora 44 and Arch Linux have already added GNOME 50.2 in their official repositories. User can simply update the system to get the new desktop release.

Ubuntu 26.04 does not use vanilla GNOME. It’s NOT guaranteed that it will have Gnome 50.2, as more than 2 years old Ubuntu 24.04 still have gnome-shell 46.0, nautilus 46.4, mutter 46.2, while the latest has reached 46.9.

Others may try out the new GNOME Desktop through the Gnome OS.

Rustdesk, the popular rust written remote desktop application for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, released new 1.4.7 version a few days ago.

The new version of this free open-source application introduced some new features, security improvements, and various bug-fixes.

RustDesk client in Ubuntu Desktop

First, Rustdesk 1.4.7 introduced new Deploy setting option for Android client. Meaning user can now use API token to register Android devices to RustDesk server and auto-set everything up.

As you may know, Rustdesk works out-of-box by using its public server as a bridge (only for establish connection, P2P afterwards) when connecting to a remote desktop. For security and faster connection, user may set up a self-hosted server.

The open-source server is great for hosting small number of clients. The client needs to manually input the server IP and key for registering, then set up the permissions (e.g., remote input, file transfer, clipboard, camera, etc), security, codec etc settings.

For companies / IT admins that have many or lots of PC or mobile devices, the API token (only available via RustDesk Server Pro) is more efficient. Without manually register and configure settings in clients one by one, it automatically registers client to your server, syncs server settings, and allows to manage clients centrally.

And, with version 1.4.7 it now supports the deployment flow for Android devices.

The new version also added new “Enable Privacy Mode” permission control in settings and connection UI for macOS and Windows. And the Privacy Mode controls are now only shown/usable in the controlling side when permitted in the controlled side.

And for macOS, it now allows to switch monitor during privacy mode, removing the previous restriction that required switching to Display 1 first.

As you know, the remote session window has some control options via the top tool-bar. And, it includes a 6 dots handle icon allowing to drag moving left or right.

In version 1.4.7, there’s a new “Allow docking remote toolbar to any window edge” setting option available. With the option enabled, you can now drag moving the tool-bar to left, right, or bottom screen edge. The tool-bar will turn vertically or horizontally automatically, and, it will remember and restore its status at next launch.

To protect from brute-force attacks, the new version now automatically re-create one-time password after 10 consecutive login failures, and it resets the count after a successful one-time-password authentication. When one-time password re-creation occurs, it logs with a warning that includes the failure count and connection IP.

There are as well other security improvements, such as new permanent password storage format, dedicated OS-credential failure policy, Windows terminal OS-login concurrency gate, as well as Linux headless OS-auth checks before desktop startup, and record password failures for failed headless X-session login attempts.

Other changes include:

• Add minimal deploy command to send a deployment request.
• Ability to allow command-line settings when “Disable settings” enabled for UI.
• Option to hide the “Stop service” menu item and button across desktop, mobile, and system tray interfaces.

Get RustDesk 1.4.7

For more about the new version, as well as the installer packages for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, go to Github via the link below:

For Linux, besides the Ubuntu (.deb) and Flatpak package at the top of link page, there are as well RHEL/Fedora, Arch, and universal AppImage packages available for downloading in the “Assets” section.

And, if you don’t even know which architecture type to choose, run uname -m command in terminal to tell.

GNU Octave, the open-source programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation, released new 11.2.0 version a few days ago.

This is the second release in the 11.x series, which features many performance and core improvements, GUI enhancements, documentation updates, and bug-fixes.

First, the new Octave 11.2.0 included many core improvements. It sped up the pkg install command and added more output with -verbose. It added visibility attribute to function declarations, and, re-implemented weboptions and related functions webread, webwrite.

It also removed extra semicolons after function definitions, fixed N-D array assignment to prevent out-of-bounds indexing, and, added ability for class constructors (classdef) to return a classdef array of itself.

This version also updated the GUI. It fixed the double spaces in translations, improved German translation. It now uses mouse cursor shape from Qt if possible or SVG. And, for Windows “system” calls no longer hide windows.

Besides the GUI and core improvements, Octave 11.2.0 also fixed some issues for building system, and, updated the documentation for arguments keyword (and add to manual).

Other changes include:

• Deprecate all and any for non-numeric/non-logical types.
• Fix input validation of permB input to eigs().
• Fix pager in CLI on Windows and disable it in the GUI.
• Check floating point subscripts before converting to octave_idx_type.
• Reject non-finite, non-integer, and out-of-range floating-point index values before casting them to octave_idx_type.
• Fix norm (S, 2) for all-zero sparse matrices.
• Avoid potential integer overflow for max.

For more about the new release, see the NEWS file in the source tarball (see the link below).

Get GNU Octave 11.2.0

The source tarball is available to download at GNU website via the link below:

Besides building from the source, Arch Linux has already include the new 11.2.0 release in the official Extra repository. While other Linux may keep an eye on the community maintained Flatpak package that runs in sandbox.

For Ubuntu users who prefer the native .deb package, I’ve made the new release package into this unofficial PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 26.04, though without testing.

To add the PPA and install Octave 11.2.0, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/octave

sudo apt update

sudo apt install octave

Uninstall:

To uninstall the .deb package, run command in terminal:

sudo apt remove octave octave-common

And, use the command below to uninstall the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/octave

For Linux Mint, also run sudo apt update to manually refresh package cache afterward.

Transmission, the default BitTorrent client for Ubuntu, released new 4.1.2 version today.

This is the second maintenance update for the 4.1 release series that features a few dozens of bug-fixes, and a few performance improvements.

First, the new version fixed a bug that could cause duplicate HTTP announces to be sent to trackers. To prevent crashes and ensure integrity, Transmission now rejects benc data that has invalid characters, instead of silently ignoring.

It also fixed a bug that one torrent parsing failure during the startup would also break subsequent torrents, and, it fixed some downloads would stalled at 99%.

This version also fixed some 4.1.0 regressions or bugs. They include the TCP peer connections issue on some systems, utp_enabled and tcp_enabled settings would be override after upgrade, disk idle issue, and crash when a peer supplied reqq value smaller than 32 in LTEP handshake.

It as well added clickjack safeguards when serving http responses, which prevents attackers from creating malicious contents that embed the Transmission Web UI in a hidden iframe.

For the QT UI, it fixed a crash when parsing some RPC responses from older Transmission servers, and settings.json incorrectly save both deprecated and current settings names.

There are also a crash fix when toggling alternative speed limits, and translation fix for the GTK UI, as well as fixes for incorrect torrent status and time display issue in press dropdown in Web UI.

And for macOS app, the new version fixed memory leak and navigation focus issues in the Inspector, and improved the UI code for less CPU usage.

Other fixes include:

• SON-RPC related UI regressions.
• Torrents order preservation issue after moving their queue up/down.
• Shrink the buffer containing the decompressed blocklist data to the actual size.
• Sanitizes invalid UTF-8 client names for remote peers, to prevent malformed text and potential errors.

For more about the new version, see the Github releases page.

Install Transmission 4.1.2

The official installers for Windows and macOS, along with source tarball, they are available to download via the link below:

For Linux, besides building from source or waiting for your Linux Distribution updates, there are community maintained Flatpak package and Snap package (available in App Center) which run in sandbox environment.

And, for current Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 26.04, I’ve built the new release package (.deb) into this unofficial PPA.

To add the PPA and install Transmission 4.1.2, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission

sudo apt update

sudo apt install transmission

Optionally, you may install transmission-cli for command line use, or transmission-daemon for running in background for server use.

Uninstall

To remove the PPA and downgrade transmission to the stock versions, run the command below to install ppa-purge and use it to purge the PPA:

sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission

Or, run the command below to manually remove the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/transmission

And then remove the BitTorrent client via command:

sudo apt remove --auto-remove transmission transmission-common

Shotcut, the free open-source MLT based video editor, released the 26.6 Beta version today.

The new version of this Qt video editor introduced some new experimental features, Vulkan in FFmpeg, external monitor improvements, and various bug-fixes.

First, shotcut 26.6 added new --experimental command line option. When you starts it with that option, you’ll see a new “Manage Add-on Filters” setting gear icon in the add filter widget.

It will open a new dialog which lists ALL available filters in MLT. And, you can select and de-select MLT filters to show or hide them in/from the main filter selection. This is useful for exploring filters, especially the host of OpenFx filters.

In the new Manage Add-on Filters dialog, you may search and add OpenFX NTSC-rs video filter, a free, open-source video effect which accurately emulates analog TV and VHS artifacts. As well, it added initial basic support for VST2 audio plugins (filters) with a UI for Valhalla Supermassive.

As the features above are experimental. The video editor may crash due to bugs. If Shotcut crashes within 30 seconds upon startup, it will restart in a safe mode without external (OpenFX, VST2) plugins. While, user may go to Settings -> Leave Safe Mode to re-enable them.

Besides experimental OpenFX & VST2 filters support, Shotcut 26.2 also introduced Vulkan Display Method support for Linux. User can go to Settings -> Display Method menu to switch from OpenGL to Vulkan, though it needs an app restart to apply change.

For multi-monitor setup, the release introduced new Player -> External Monitor -> Preview Window (HDR), which opens preview in a new seprated window in external monitor. It however does not work along with the “Use Old Video Output” option, and, the HDR preview is not working on Linux and Windows/ARM so far.

It as well added support for PQ HDR and the metadata dialogs to External Monitor -> DeckLink.

Other changes include:

• New Reduce Noise: Audio (RNNoise) filter.
• Support for HDR to Export.
• Add Dynamic range to custom Video Mode and Timeline Properties.
• New “Create Transitions on Overlap” option.
• Use native file chooser dialog for Linux Snap package.

Get Shotcut 26.6 Beta

The official release note, installer packages for Linux, Windows, macOS, as well as the source tarball are available in Github via the link below:

For Linux, select download the AppImage (for modern Intel/AMD), add executable permission from the Properties dialog, finally click Run to launch the video editor.

Tips: Ubuntu since 22.04 does NOT support AppImage out-of-the-box, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the required library:

sudo apt install libfuse2

Ubuntu user may search & install the Snap package from App Center (or Ubuntu Software), while, an official Flatpak packageFlatpak package is also available for most Linux though runs in sandbox.

After a month of RC testing, Linux Lite 8.0 was finally released today!

Linux Lite 8.0, code-name Hematite, is a lightweight Linux Distribution that features XFCE Desktop 4.20 with custom themes and core apps, high performance custom Kernel 7.0, and Ubuntu 26.04 package base.

Linux Lite 8.0 Desktop

The new version features a high performance custom kernel built specifically for desktop and gaming use on everyday hardware.

The default kernel is built for smooth and responsive desktop experience for everyday tasks, such as web browsing, office work, and media playback. While, an optional gaming kernel can be installed afterward, which targets for users who play games regularly or run audio/video production software care about timing.

Both kernels include the full BORE scheduler modification, but with different preemption to allow the scheduler to interrupt running work.

And, a new Linux Kernel Manager utility is available for users to install and switch between the two kernels, manage profiles, and run benchmark!

Besides the new kernels, Linux Lite 8.0 switched to Calamares installer that’s also default in Debian (live image), KUbuntu etc Linux distributions. As Ubuntu has switched to new Flutter based installer, and slows down the development of the legacy Ubiquity installer.

It as well added OEM installer for hardware vendors, which will not create end-user account during installation. Instead, when the customer powers the machine for the first time, it pops-up a setup wizard to create a personal account.

As you may know, Ubuntu 26.04 removed the graphics tool for managing drivers and software sources. Linux Lite takes up the job by introduced its own new graphical Lite Driver Manager app, making easy for beginners to install network adapter, NVIDIA etc drivers by simply using a few mouse clicks.

And, it added new Lite Software Sources app for managing software repositories, such as changing download mirror, adding PPA, and managing key files.

It as well introduced new Lite Game Center, allowing to one click enable game-mode, install drivers, Steam, Lutris, Proton, Wine, game controller support, or install/uninstall them individually.

It also introduced new “About” utility that displays hardware details, e.g, CPU, GPU, Memory and storage, new System Monitor app for real-time CPU, memory, storage, and network monitoring.

New About Lite, and system monitor apps

After installed Linux Lite, user can minimum the system by launching the new Lite Core app and remove all the unwanted applications with few clicks. As well, a new Lite Distro Builder app is available to easily create your own version of Linux Lite and share it with others.

Other changes include new Starship command prompt in terminal app for significant start up difference, new boot animation screen (Plymouth theme), and apt sources ported to DEB822 (change from .list to .sources config file).

And, it seems that the start menu (Lite Whisker Menu) has been ported to round corners, though, not sure if it’s bug or virtual machine issue it has a white and sharp background.

rounded start menu, though with a sharp background (not sure bug or VM issue)

More in Lite Lite 8.0 include:

• Port most core apps to GTK4.
• Use Firefox (DEB version) as default browser.
• Local AI in Firefox.
• Ability to sort apps in Lite Menu in alphabetical order.
• New GTK4 welcome screen with autostart toggle.
• New folder icon theme choices.
• Lite folder share
• And more!

Get Linux Lite 8.0

For more about the new 8.0 release as well as the .iso installer image, go to its website via the link below:

Or go directly to the sourceforge page for the ISO image.

And, Linux Lite 7.x can upgrade to the new 8.0 release by using “Lite Series Upgrade”. Sadly, upgrading from 8.0 RC is NOT supported.

Recommended computer requirements include:

• 1.5 Ghz dual-core 64-bit Intel/AMD processor.
• 4 GB Memory.
• 40 GB Storage (HDD/SSD).
• 1366×768 resolution display.

After a few weeks of Beta testing, the lightweight Audacious music player finally announced the new 4.6 version.

The new version of this free open-source music player app features built-in file browser, macOS Now Playing, new audio format support and various bug-fixes.

First, the new version introduced a built-in file browser through plugin, which can be enabled by going to File -> Settings -> Plugins -> General.

It allows to browse or search supported music files in your local computer, then either drag’n’drop into playlist, or use right-click menu options to play, add to (or create) playlist.

The file browser by default starts as a separated window. For Qt UI, simply use the title bar button to marge it into the main window. While, GTK3 users may right-click below the title bar to get the menu to dock the file-manager into main window.

The Winamp classic interface in this release still requires windowing system features that are not supported in Wayland. So for GNOME, KDE and other desktops with Wayland session, the Winamp UI is default to XWayland compatibility mode.

And, a toggle option is available in the Advanced settings page, allowing user to easily disable XWayland when trying to switch to GTK or QT user interface.

Winamp UI defaults to XWayland on Wayland session.

Audacious 4.6 also updated its UI with Bitrate, File Created/Modified dates support in playlist, though user needs to enable them manually from Appearance settings page.

It added the Playback History plugin for GTK UI, and a setting option to re-enable the confirm dialog for users who checked “Don’t ask again” in Remove Playlist dialog.

It as well added support for .mpc Musepack audio file, support for all AIFF file extensions (.aif, .aifc, .aiff) and MIME types (audio/aiff and audio/x-aiff), and support for reading lyrics tag from Opus, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files.

New playlist columns available

For users who prefer using keyboard shortcut, the release added global hotkeys support for previous/next album action, and support using Delete and F2 keys in Playlist Manager dialog.

And for macOS users, Audacious 4.6 added macOS Now Playing plugin for monitoring and controlling audio playback in the Control Center or Menu Bar. And, it removed the Mac Media Keys plugin.

Other changes include:

• Drag’n’drop into Qt winamp UI support.
• Read ReplayGain tags with FFmpeg plugin, meaning more files support.
• Allow using Previous control to go to the last track in playlist for Repeat mode.
• Support exporting playlist via audtool CLI tool.
• Use localized music directory for Search Tool.
• Load companion .m3u/.m3u8 with Game Console Music Decoder for subsong metadata.

There are as well many bug-fixes, removal of deprecated Audacious code and APIs, and more. And, for users of 4.6 Beta, it fixed slider knob click behavior for GTK, a few crashes, and updated translations.

How to Install Audacious 4.6

The official release note, as well as the source tarballs are available in the software website via the link below:

For Ubuntu, besides building from the source, there’s also community maintained Flatpak package which runs in sandbox environment, which is however not updated at the moment of writing.

And, I’ve built the new version into this unofficial PPA (and synced with this one) for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 26.04. amdv3 support is also added.

NOTE: The new PPA packages have some library name changes by following Ubuntu 26.04 build rules. Please do a complete removal via the command below and re-install if you got issues.

sudo apt remove --autoremove audacious-plugins-data audacious libaudcore5 libaudcore5t64

To add the PPA, and install Audacious 4.6 in Ubuntu, run the commands below one by one in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
sudo apt update
sudo apt install audacious audacious-plugins

For any reason, you may purge PPA and downgrade Audacious to the stock versions by running command:

sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps

Or, just remove the music player by running command:

sudo apt install audacious audacious-plugins-data --autoremove

The first monthly development release, Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1, is available to download!

Ubuntu developer team announced this snapshot last night, though a few images are missing, including Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop image for modern Intel/AMD platform.

I’d like to announce the first successful publication of the Stonking Stingray monthly snapshot – Stonking Snapshot 1 (and the first
snapshot of the 26.10 cycle!). You can find the images on cdimage.ubuntu.com,

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A few images are missing from this first snapshot – we’re aware and working on them; they should be available for Snapshot 2.

Meaning for modern Intel/AMD platform, you can only try out this snapshot through virtual machine (run arm64 VM on amd64 host). It however failed in my case, so I tried the XUbuntu 26.10 flavor instead.

XUbuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1

Ubuntu 26.10, code-name Stonking Stingray, is the next short term release, that is scheduled to be released on October 15 with 9 months support until July, 2027. It targets Linux 7.2 as the default kernel and GNOME 51 as the default desktop environment.

It will probably feature an optional local AI integration, a minimal secure boot Grub, and full Rust core utilities. The official release note page is ready but empty at the moment of writing.

For the current development release, it still has Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50, and most things look just like the current Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

As far as I know, it has following updates:

• Plasma-desktop 6.6.5, KDE Gear 26.04, KF6 Framework 6.26.0.
• LXQt Desktop 2.4.0.
• OpenJDK 27.
• FFmpeg 8.1.
• Nginx 1.30.0.
• Nodejs 24.15.
• Lazarus 4.6.
• And many Lomiri (formerly Unity 8) and rust library updates.

For more changes about Ubuntu 26.10, keep an eye on the official release note via the link above, or see change archives.

Get Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1

NOTE: as mentioned the amd64 desktop image for Intel/AMD is NOT availabe in this release.

To download the .iso images for Desktop (arm64) and Server, as well as Netboot tarball, WSL, and pre-install server images, go to the link below:

For the official flavors with other desktops or for education purpose, download them via the links below:

NOTE: this release does not include Ubuntu MATE 26.10 and Ubuntu Studio 26.10.

• EdUbuntu 26.10.
• KUbuntu 26.10.
• LUbuntu 26.10.
• Ubuntu Budgie 26.10.
• Ubuntu Unity 26.10.
• Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.10.
• UbuntuKylin 26.10.
• XUbuntu 26.10.

Future Ubuntu 26.10 Development Releases

The next snapshot 2 release is scheduled on June 25th. There will be also snapshot 3 and snapshot 4 releases in July and August. For more, see the table below.

NOTE: GNOME 51 and Kernel are developed by other teams, not Ubuntu. And, the kernel release dates are made according to this predictions.

Ubuntu 26.10, the next Ubuntu version that’s scheduled for October 15, targets to use Linux 7.2 as the default Kernel.

The Ubuntu developer team announced this decision one day ago in Ubuntu Discourse:

Based on the current Linux release predictions, the mainline v7.2 kernel is expected to be released on Sunday, 2026-08-30. This timing aligns well with the key deadlines and dates for the Stonking Stingray release cycle.

Image by Axel Schäfer from Pixabay

As you may know, Ubuntu changed the policy to adopt the latest kernel for future releases since 24.10 version.

The next Ubuntu 26.10, code-name Stonking Stingray, is a short-term release with 9 months support, which will feature GNOME Desktop 51 if everything goes well.

According to this prediction, the latest kernel at that time will be Linux 7.2. Thus, Ubuntu developer team announced that the 7.2 kernel has been selected as the target version for 26.10.

New Features in Linux 7.2

Linux 7.2 merge window is not open yet. But some features have been revealed based on on early “‑next” activity.

According to phoronix, Linux 7.2 will feature cache aware scheduling, that significantly benefits modern Intel and AMD CPUs by reducing cache misses and lowering data access latency.

It will add huge folios support for Btrfs file system, allowing up to 2MB memory folios each, that greatly improve I/O throughput and lower CPU overhead, and, introduce OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for VFS to avoid tricking secure programs.

Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) will allow updates with needing to restart the running server, and, the incorrect maximum frequency value report for P-core-only Bartlett Lake processors will be fixed.

Other changes include:

• Introduce AMDGPU DC power module.
• Default to fair DRM scheduler rather than FIFO.
• Improve performance on Valve’s Steam Deck.
• Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet.
• Support Switchtec PCIe Gen6 Switches

More about Linux Kernel 7.2 will be reported in kernelnewbies and phoronix once it’s officially released.

Try out Ubuntu 26.10

Ubuntu 26.10 Daily Live CD image is already available to download in Ubuntu website via the link below:

According to past few Ubuntu releases, there will be probably monthly snapshot releases as well. Along with the final .iso images, they will be available to download at this page.

And, below is the release table for Ubuntu 26.10, according to the official release schedule.

As well, you may keep an eye on this page for the official release note for Ubuntu 26.10.