Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Is Slated for Release on April 17th, 2025
Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” will be Canonical’s 42nd Ubuntu release and it’s an interim one that will be supported with software and security updates for only nine months, until January 2026. It will be a release for bleeding-edge Ubuntu users who are willing to trade Ubuntu LTS’s stability with the latest technologies.
Paride Legovini from the Ubuntu Release Team announced today that the six-month-long development cycle of Plucky Puffin is officially open, yet the toolchain was uploaded earlier this month on October 17th. The release schedule is also now available if you want to mark your calendars.
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Still, that’s a way off; there are 6 months of development stretching out ahead of us.
But looking in to the distance one can’t help but wonder what new features Ubuntu 25.04 will offer.
It’s too early in the release cycle to know, although GNOME 48, a newer Linux kernel (likely 6.14), and Snap app improvements are all-but a given.
Still, would it be too much to hope that the Plucky cycle finally delivers that long-promised yet perpetually-unready Ubuntu Core Desktop preview?
Remains to be seen!