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Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
Richard Ferreira
29 September 2026
Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher, or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux ecosystem on a stable foundation.
As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during the initial launch of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. It’s available to download and install from our download page.
Users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will shortly be prompted to upgrade to 26.04 LTS directly from their desktop, either automatically or as part of a scheduled update. If you missed our press release, don’t worry. We’re summing up the most exciting developments in this post to get you ready to upgrade.
With the GNOME 50 desktop environment and a modernized set of default applications, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS fully embraces Wayland, completing the upstream shift from X.org. This shift delivers smoother visuals, per-monitor scaling, native touch and gesture support, removes screen tearing and optimizes performance across platforms, including support for the latest NVIDIA production drivers. Fractional scaling and variable refresh rate (VRR) are no longer experimental, and GNOME 50 brings faster animations and a cleaner workspace.
New default applications include the Papers document viewer, the Loupe image viewer, the Ptyxis terminal, and the Resources system monitor, along with a broad set of accessibility fixes across the Shell and default applications to ensure compliance with global regulations. The App Center now provides a unified software management experience, with debs and snaps displayed side-by-side in a single place.
As the target platform for open source software vendors and community projects, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships with the latest toolchains for Python, Rust, Ruby, Go, PHP, and Perl, and users get first access to the latest updates for key libraries and packages.
In fields such as data science and machine learning, Ubuntu is the operating system (OS) of choice for many of the most popular frameworks. This includes OpenCV, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Kubeflow.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is the first Ubuntu release to natively distribute NVIDIA CUDA as part of its software repositories, and NVIDIA DOCA-OFED for high-performance networking is available through an official PPA starting with this release. The AMD ROCm software platform is also now available in Ubuntu’s repositories – an open software ecosystem for hardware-accelerated AI, machine learning, and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct and AMD Radeon GPUs.
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