[German]Canonical released Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) on October 9, 2025. This is an interim version of Ubuntu that forms the basis for the next LTS version. This distribution comes with GNOME 49 and several other new features.
According to this announcement, Ubuntu 25.10 offers compatibility improvements "at the silicon level," accessibility enhancements, and a robust security architecture. Ubuntu 25.10 is the first system to benefit from memory-safe implementations of "coreutils" and "sudo-rs," as well as improvements to TPM-backed full disk encryption and support for nested virtualization on Arm.
In addition to GNOME 49 and new default applications such as the Ptyxis terminal emulator and the Loupe image viewer, Ubuntu 25.10 offers various platform upgrades, from improved Bluetooth audio processing to expanded support for confidential computing features.
Details can be found in the announcement linked above. This Linux distribution is available for free download here.
Addendum: Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka suffers from Flatpak installation errors, as reported in this bug report. However, according to this neowin.net article, there is a fix that resolves the issue.
