A look at what’s inside Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Budgie, Edubuntu, and other official flavors.
Canonical published today the Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) release, the latest stable version of their popular GNU/Linux distribution, featuring up-to-date components and new features.
Dubbed Questing Quokka, Ubuntu 25.10 is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.17kernel series for top-notch hardware support and ships with the latest GNOME 49 desktop environment, defaulting to a Wayland-only session for the Ubuntu Desktop flavor, meaning there’s no other session to choose from the login screen.
Ubuntu Desktop also ships with two new apps, namely GNOME’s Loupe instead of Eye of GNOME as the default image viewer, as well as Ptyxis instead of GNOME Terminal as the default terminal emulator. Also, there’s a new update notification that will be shown with options to open Software Updater or install updates directly.
“An icon will be visible in the system tray even after dismissing the notification, reminding you that updates are available, and providing a quick way to apply all the updates or open the Software Updater to inspect the available updates,” said Canonical.
Other highlights of Ubuntu 25.10 include sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, Dracut as the default initramfs-tools, Chrony as the default NTP (Network Time Protocol) client, Rust Coreutils as the default implementation of GNU Core Utilities, and TPM-backed FDE (Full Disk Encryption) recovery key management.
Moreover, Ubuntu 25.10 adds NVIDIA Dynamic Boost support and enables suspend-resume support in the proprietary NVIDIAgraphics driver to prevent corruption and freezes when waking an NVIDIA desktop. For Intel users, Ubuntu 25.10 introduces support for new Intel integrated and discrete GPUs.
Another interesting change in Ubuntu 25.10 is the implementation of Ubuntu Insights, a replacement for Ubuntu Report that promises to give users more control over the non-personally identifying system metrics that they choose to share with Canonical. Of course, the metrics collection is optional.
Under the hood, Ubuntu 25.10 comes with an updated toolchain that includes GCC 15.2, GNU C Library 2.42, GNU Binutils 2.45, Python 3.13.7, LLVM 20, Boost 1.88, systemd 257.9, Rust 1.85, Go 1.24, OpenJDK 21 LTS, Zig 0.14.1, OpenSSL 3.5.3, BlueZ 5.83 13, PipeWire 1.4.7, APT 3.1, as well as the latest Mesa 25.2graphics stack.
There are also some underlying kernel changes in Ubuntu 25.10, such as the deprecation of the linux-modules-extra-* packages in favor of the linux-modules-<version>-<flavor> packages, initial support for kexec/kdump for TDX-enabled hosts, and support for RISC-V hardware that implements the RVA23S64 ISA profile.
Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) is available for download from the official website as twelve official flavors, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu MATE.
Being an interim release, Ubuntu 25.10 will be supported by Canonical with software and security updates for nine months, until July 2026. If you’re looking for long-term support, you should download and install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)instead, or wait for next year’s Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon).
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