The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 23.10. Xubuntu 23.10, codenamed Mantic Minotaur, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until July 2024. Xubuntu 23.10, featuring the latest updates from Xfce 4.18 and GNOME 44. Xubuntu 23.10 features the latest updates from Xfce 4.18, GNOME 45, and MATE 1.26. With a focus on stability, memory management, and hardware support, Xubuntu 23.10 should perform well on your device. Enjoy frictionless bluetooth headphone connections and out-of-the-box touchpad support. Read Sean’s What’s New in Xubuntu 23.10 ..read more

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 23.04. Xubuntu 23.04, codenamed Lunar Lobster, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until January 2024. Xubuntu 23.04, featuring the latest updates from Xfce 4.18 and GNOME 44. Xubuntu 23.04 features the latest Xfce 4.18. Xfce 4.18 delivers a stable desktop environment with a number of performance improvements and new features to enjoy. In particular, the Thunar file manager benefits from a new image preview feature, undo and redo functionality, file highlights, and recursive search. Check out the X ..read more

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 21.10. Xubuntu 21.10, codenamed Impish Indri, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until June 2022. If you need a stable environment with longer support time we recommend that you use Xubuntu 20.04 LTS instead. The final release images are available as torrents and direct downloads from xubuntu.org/download/. As the main server might be busy in the first few days after the release, we recommend using the torrents if possible. Xubuntu Core, our minimal ISO edition, is available to download from unit193.ne ..read more

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 21.04. Xubuntu 21.04, codenamed Hirsute Hippo, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until January 2022. If you need a stable environment with longer support time we recommend that you use Xubuntu 20.04 LTS instead. The final release images are available as torrents and direct downloads from xubuntu.org/download/. As the main server might be busy in the first few days after the release, we recommend using the torrents if possible. Xubuntu Core, our minimal ISO edition, is available to download from unit19 ..read more

We’re delighted to announce that we’re participating in another ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 1st to April 7th with other flavours in the Ubuntu family. On April 1st, the beta version of Xubuntu 21.04 ‘Hirsute Hippo’ will be released after halting all new changes to its features, user interface and documentation. Between April 1st and the final release on April 22nd, all efforts by the Xubuntu team and community should be focused on ISO testing, reporting bugs, fixing bugs, and translations. It has been a year since we last did a collaboration with other Ubuntu flavors for an Ubuntu Testing ..read more

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 20.10! Xubuntu 20.10, codenamed Groovy Gorilla, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until July 2021. If you need a stable environment with longer support time we recommend that you use Xubuntu 20.04 LTS instead. The final release images are available as torrents and direct downloads from xubuntu.org/download/. As the main server might be busy in the first few days after the release, we recommend using the torrents if possible. Xubuntu Core, our minimal installation option, is available to download from ..read more

On Tuesday, May 18th, the Xubuntu Team voted to migrate some of our infrastructure away from Launchpad to GitHub for code hosting, while translations are now on Transifex. Here’s a summary of the changes: We have a new GitHub organization, under the Xubuntu name. Each subteam has an equivalent in the new organization. All codebases have been migrated to GitHub. All translations have moved to Transifex. Every codebase moved to GitHub has been mirrored on Launchpad. This supports our daily package builds, and allows community members to continue using only Launchpad if they choose. The followi ..read more

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 20.04. Xubuntu 20.04, codenamed Focal Fossa, is a long-term support (LTS) release and will be supported for 3 years, until April 2024. The Xubuntu team has been hard at work for the last six months of this development cycle improving both the Xfce desktop environment and the Xubuntu user experience following our 19.10 release, which introduced Xfce 4.14 for the first time. We were thrilled by the response to the Ubuntu Testing Week, which helped us make 20.04 another great and stable release. The final release images&n ..read more

The Xubuntu team are happy to announce the results of the 20.04 community wallpaper contest! We want to send out a huge thanks to every contestant. Each contest becomes more and more successful. For the 16.04 contest, we had 92 submissions; For 18.04 there were 162; and this time around there was an incredible 237 submissions! Great work! All of the submissions are browsable on the 20.04 contest page at contest.xubuntu.org. Without further ado, here are the winners: Untitled by Luca Reichmann (CC-BY 4.0) “Sunset” by Kacperu (CC-BY 4.0) Untitled by Anna Ceccarelli (CC-BY 4.0) “Lighthouse” by D ..read more

We’re delighted to announce that we’re participating in an ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from April 2nd to April 8th with other flavors in the Ubuntu family. On April 2nd, we’ll be releasing the beta release of Xubuntu 20.04 LTS, after halting all new changes to its features, user interface and documentation. And between April 2nd and the final release on April 23rd, all efforts by the Xubuntu team and community are focused on ISO testing, bug reporting, and fixing bugs. So, we highly encourage you to join the community by downloading the daily ISO image and trying it out, though you are welcome to st ..read more