April 23, 2026
The Kubuntu team is thrilled to announce the release of Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed “Resolute Raccoon”! As a community-driven flavour of Ubuntu, Kubuntu continues its mission to deliver the cutting-edge KDE software ecosystem on top of Ubuntu’s rock-solid foundation. This Long-Term Support release, aligned with Ubuntu’s two-year LTS cycle, brings together the freshest stable KDE software with the reliability and security users depend on for years to come.
Building on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base released today by Canonical, Kubuntu 26.04 introduces Plasma 6.6 as the flagship desktop environment, alongside Qt 6.10.2, KDE Frameworks 6.24.0, and the latest KDE Gear 25.12.3 application suite. We’ve also upgraded to Linux kernel 7.0 for enhanced hardware support and performance. Whether you’re a developer, creator, or everyday user, this release emphasises Wayland maturity, modern security, and seamless integration with the open source world.
Kubuntu 26.04 LTS will receive security updates and critical fixes through April 2029, making it an excellent choice for home users, schools, businesses, and anyone who values a dependable, beautiful desktop.
Kubuntu remains completely free to download, use, and share—empowering our global community to innovate without barriers. Download it now and join our community on Discourse.
Here are four standout enhancements that Kubuntu 26.04 LTS brings to your desktop:
Text Recognition in Spectacle: Capture Text, Not Just Images Spectacle, KDE’s built-in screenshot tool, gains one of its most practical new capabilities in Plasma 6.6: built-in OCR text recognition. Capture any screenshot containing text—a document, a web page, an error dialog, a presentation slide—and Spectacle can analyse the image and convert the visible text into selectable, copyable content, right from within the app. No third-party tools required. Multi-language support means it works for users around the world, and the extracted text copies directly to your clipboard for immediate use. It’s the kind of small feature that quickly becomes indispensable.
Note: Multi-language OCR support requires the appropriate Tesseract language data package for your language. Install the one that matches your locale — for example,
tesseract-ocr-deufor German ortesseract-ocr-frafor French — with:sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-<language-code>A full list of available language packs can be found by running
apt search tesseract-ocr-.
A New On-Screen Keyboard for Touch, Accessibility, and Beyond Plasma 6.6 introduces a fully integrated on-screen keyboard, making Kubuntu a much stronger choice for touchscreen devices, tablets, and users with accessibility needs. The keyboard supports multiple languages and layouts, adjusts its position intelligently to avoid covering input fields, and is easily accessible via the system tray or accessibility settings. It includes standard keys, function keys, and emoji support, and appears automatically when you tap a text input field on touch-enabled hardware. This addition reflects KDE’s ongoing commitment to making the desktop inclusive and usable for everyone.
Plasma Wayland: The Default, Fully Supported Session
The Plasma Wayland session is the default and fully supported session in Kubuntu 26.04 LTS, delivering
improved security, smoother rendering, and better HiDPI display support. For users who need it for legacy
hardware or specific workflows, the plasma-session-x11 package remains available in the Ubuntu archive—
but it is not installed by default and is not supported by the Kubuntu team.
Extensive Theming and Configuration Improvements Plasma 6.6 brings significant advances to theming and desktop configuration, giving users more expressive control over the look and feel of their environment than ever before. Custom global themes have been expanded, colour scheme handling has been refined throughout the shell and applications, and widget customisation options have been deepened across panels and the desktop. Whether you prefer a polished out-of-the-box experience or enjoy crafting every detail of your workspace, Resolute Raccoon gives you the tools to make Kubuntu truly your own.
Note for upgraders: The depth of configuration changes across Plasma 6.6, Qt 6.10.2, and KDE Frameworks 6.24.0 means that some users upgrading from a previous release may experience visual glitches, broken panel layouts, or misbehaving themes. If you encounter these issues after upgrading, the first step is to reset your theme: open System Settings → Colors & Themes and reapply your preferred global theme, making sure to check both the Desktop Layout and Window Layout checkboxes when prompted. This will restore panels, widgets, and window decorations to a clean state in most cases.
If problems persist after resetting your theme, a clean
~/.configfolder is the nuclear option — back up your existing configuration first, then remove it before logging back in. This should be treated as a last resort, as it will reset all Plasma settings to defaults.
Beyond these highlights, Kubuntu 26.04 LTS inherits Ubuntu’s robust platform upgrades:
sched_ext scheduling system for hot-swappable eBPF-based schedulers,
and retires the linux-lowlatency package in favour of a leaner lowlatency-kernel tuning approach
on top of linux-generic.sudo-rs, a memory-safe Rust reimplementation of sudo,
as the default sudo provider — improving security without changing everyday usage.rust-coreutils, bringing
performance improvements and memory safety to fundamental command-line tools.apt show and apt list and history and rollback commands like
apt history-list or apt history-rollback, which were previously found only in separate apt-rollback tool.This release marks another milestone in Kubuntu’s long journey as one of Ubuntu’s most beloved flavours. A huge thank you to our volunteer contributors, testers, bug reporters, and the upstream KDE and Ubuntu teams for making Resolute Raccoon a reality.
Ready to dive in? Download Kubuntu 26.04 LTS and install fresh,
or upgrade from Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. If upgrading and you run into theme or layout issues, see the note
above on resetting your theme before reaching for a clean ~/.config. Questions? Head to Discourse
or join us on Matrix at #kubuntu:matrix.org.
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