The Plasma Desktop Environment

The beta of Focal Fossa (to become 20.04 LTS) has now been released, and is available for download.

User of Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and other flavours are invited to take part in #UbuntuTestingWeek.

This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours.

Pre-releases of the Focal Fossa are not recommended for:

Anyone needing a stable system

Regular users who are not aware of pre-release issues

Anyone uncomfortable running a possibly frequently broken system

Anyone in a production environment with data or workflows that need to be reliable

They are, however, recommended for:

Regular users who want to help us test by finding, reporting, and/or fixing bugs

Kubuntu, KDE, and Qt developers

Other Ubuntu flavour developers

The Beta includes some software updates that are ready for broader testing. However, it is an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs.

You can:

Read more information about the Kubuntu 20.04 Beta in the Release Notes.

Read the full text of the main Ubuntu Focal Fossa announcement.

The Ubuntu Focal Fossa Release notes will give more details of changes to the Ubuntu base: