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Introductions! Kubuntu disappeared from Mastodon when Mastodon.rocks died. Good to be back. We provide the Plasma environment and KDE sorftware on an Ubuntu base. Friendly software!

Rolling out as we speak: #Kubuntu 21.04, codenamed Hirsute Hippo! Based on #Ubuntu but featuring #KDE Plasma 5.21 as the default desktop alongside many other updates at all levels of the wonderful stack that makes up our cool blue flavor.

Download: https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/

Upgrade: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HirsuteUpgrades/Kubuntu

Enjoy: 😀

P.S. For anyone curious, looks like Sylvia Ritter already has another of her beautiful #Ubuntu release images up already for Hirsute Hippo!

21.04 looms; now is the time for testing! On April 1st, the Beta for Hirsute Hippo will be released, and we'll be participating in #UbuntuTestingWeek as we try and shake out the bugs to leave us with a solid release by the end of the month.

See https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-21-04-testing-week/ for more info on how you can help us (and the wider #Ubuntu community) with this testing, or just to take a peek at the near-future :)

Some bits of news about Linux on the desktop, from the #Kubuntu perspective: https://kubuntu.org/news/linux-on-the-desktop/

Aaaand here it is, #Kubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla is out! Plasma 5.19.5 and KDE Applications 20.08 out of the box (so to speak).

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-20-10-groovy-gorilla-released/

The 20.10 release is perilously close! You can help us test (or just peruse the status and find out about some fun other flavours of Ubuntu; did you know there's a Raspberry Pi desktop image now?) over at http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/418/builds on the Ubuntu QA site.

Nice to see the pre-installed Linux laptop world expanding; admittedly, we're not exactly impartial ;)

https://kfocus.org/

Oh hey that's us! https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Kubuntu-Focus-M2-Laptop

The #Kubuntu Council and Community would like to thank #Linode for once again renewing their sponsorship of Kubuntu by providing us with another year’s usage of a VPS instance 🙂

https://kubuntu.org/news/linode-renews-kubuntu-vps-sponsorship/

For those cautiously sticking to #Kubuntu 18.04, our previous Long-Term Support release: 18.04.5 is out now! More a matter of semantics if you've got an existing install, as there's nothing you need to do then other than apply updates as usual, but for fresh installs (although of course we recommend 20.04 for maximum freshness!) you'll now see 18.04.5 images are available to download. https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/

#Kubuntu 20.04.1 has been released! If you were waiting on the first point release before upgrading to our current Long-Term Support version, now's the time :) Users on 18.04 should see upgrade notifications soon™.

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-20-04-1-has-been-released-today-featuring-the-beautiful-kde-plasma-5-18-lts/

Time marches on; Kubuntu 19.10 has reached the end of its life. Best to upgrade to 20.04 (a Long-Term Support release!) now if you haven't already. If you can't update quite yet, don't worry, it will still be possible even once the packages are archived. See https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-19-10-eoan-ermine-reaches-end-of-life/ for more details.

Are you running the development release of Kubuntu Groovy Gorilla 20.10, or wanting to try the daily live ISO?

Plasma 5.19 has now landed in 20.10 and is available for testing!

https://kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5-19-testing-in-groovy-gorrila/

Anyone have strong opinions, or good suggestions, on CI systems? Do let us know! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2020-May/011840.html

*Taps mic* Is this thing on? Ah, good. Past time to mention, #Kubuntu 20.04 is available! Featuring #Plasma 5.18, #KDE Applications 19.12.3, and other hardy components for our LTS release.

https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-20-04-lts-has-been-released/