What's new in Kubuntu 21.04
Sep 19, 2021
- The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 21.04 has been released, featuring the beautiful KDE Plasma 5.21: simple by default, powerful when needed.
- Codenamed Hirsute Hippo, Kubuntu 21.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
- The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
- Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 5.11-based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.80, KDE Plasma 5.21 and KDE Release Service Applications 20.12.3
- Kubuntu has seen many updates for other applications, both in our default install, and installable from the Ubuntu archive.
- Krita, Kdevelop, Yakuake, and many many more applications are updated.
- Applications for core day to day usage are included and updated, such as Firefox, VLC and Libreoffice.