Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” is out
Canonical released the 11th Ubuntu LTS on 23 April 2026: Linux 7.0, GNOME 50 on Wayland, CUDA and ROCm in the archive, and TPM-backed disk encryption.
Canonical published Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codename Resolute Raccoon, on 23 April 2026. It is the eleventh long-term support release and is available from ubuntu.com/download.
What landed
Official notes highlight:
- Linux 7.0 as the release kernel
- GNOME 50 and a Wayland-only desktop (X11 apps via Xwayland)
- NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm packages in Ubuntu’s own repositories
- TPM-backed full-disk encryption in the installer
- sudo-rs and uutils coreutils as memory-safe replacements for core tools
- Livepatch on Arm64 servers for the first time
- Support for Intel TDX and AMD SEV confidential computing
- RVA23 as the RISC-V baseline
Canonical’s Jon Seager called the release a mix of “resilience” and upstream innovation for whatever silicon you run.
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