The Kubuntu team is proud to announce the Beta release of Kubuntu 26.04 LTS — Resolute Raccoon, stepping toward our April 2026 release. This is your chance to preview the next Long-Term Support edition, put it through its paces, and help us deliver a polished final release. This is a pre-release. It is intended for testing, not production use. Systems may encounter instability. If you need reliability, stick with Kubuntu 25.

We have had many requests to make Plasma 5.27 available in our backports PPA for Jammy Jellyfish 22.04. However, for technical reasons this would have broken upgrades to Kinetic 22.10 while that upgrade path existed. Now that Kinetic is end of life, it is possible to allow opt in backports of plasma 5.27 for 22.04. As with the previous backport of plasma 5.25, version 5.27 is provided in the backports-extra PPA