• Ubuntu 26.04 Begins Its Feature Freeze Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced today on the behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team that the Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” has entered its feature freeze. • This signals the shift from feature development to bug fixing. • But as usual, feature freeze exceptions can be granted and typically do occur especially for features that Canonical is interested in getting into this next Long Term Support (LTS) Release. • The announcement of the Ubuntu 26.04 feature freeze can be found on the ubuntu-devel-announce list. • Ubuntu 26.04 is set to ship in April with the leading-edge Linux 7.0 kernel. • On the desktop side will be GNOME 50 by default and all of its latest upstream improvements.
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- Canonical’s Ubuntu Release Team announced that Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” has entered its feature freeze, marking the transition from new feature development to bug‑fixing. The LTS release, slated for April 23, will ship with the Linux 7.0 kernel, GNOME 50, GCC 15, OpenJDK 25, and the new GNOME Resources system monitor, among other updated toolchain components and ROCm support. The next milestones are a UI freeze on March 12, a beta release at the end of March, a kernel freeze on April 9, and the final release on April 23. Feature‑freeze exceptions may still be granted for key additions.
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