What's new in Kubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
May 7, 2023
- The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 23.04 has been released, featuring the ‘beautiful’ KDE Plasma 5.27 simple by default, powerful when needed.
- Codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, Kubuntu 23.04 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.
- Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 6.2-based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.104, KDE Plasma 5.27 and KDE Gear 22.12.
- KDE Plasma desktop 5.27 on Kubuntu 23.04:
- 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.