Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open
source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
The team has been hard at work through this cycle, partnering with the
community and our partners, to introduce new features and fix bugs.
Ubuntu Desktop 21.10 makes wayland sessions available while using the
Nvidia proprietary driver. PulseAudio 15 introduces support for Bluetooth
LDAC and AptX codecs, as well as HFP Bluetooth profiles providing better
audio quality. The recovery key feature at installation time has been
improved, with the recovery key now optional, stronger and editable.
Ubuntu Desktop 21.10 includes GNOME version 40, with a new and
improved Activities Overview design. Workspaces are now arranged
horizontally, and the overview and app grid are accessed vertically.
Each direction has accompanying keyboard shortcuts, touchpad gestures
and mouse actions.
Ubuntu Server 21.10 integrates recent innovations from key open
infrastructure projects like OpenStack Xena, QEMU 6.0, PHP8, libvirt 7.6,
Kubernetes, and Ceph with advanced life-cycle management tools for
multi-cloud and on-prem operations from bare metal, VMWare and
OpenStack, to every major public cloud.
The Ubuntu Kernel has been updated to the 5.13 based Linux kernel and
our default toolchain has moved to the gcc 11.2.0 release with glibc 2.34.
The newest Ubuntu Budgie, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE,
Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu are also being released today. More details
can be found for these at their individual release notes under the
Official Flavours section:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/
Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours
releasing with 21.10.
To get Ubuntu 21.10
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In order to download Ubuntu 21.10, visit:
Users of Ubuntu 21.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 21.10.
For further information about upgrading, see:
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade
As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of
charge.
We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document
caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on
the release itself. They are available at:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/impish-indri-release-notes/
Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview:
https://ubuntu.com/desktop
https://ubuntu.com/desktop/features
If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but
aren't sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:
#ubuntu on irc.libera.chat
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
https://ubuntuforums.org
https://askubuntu.com
https://discourse.ubuntu.com
Help Shape Ubuntu
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If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways
you can participate at:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/contribute
About Ubuntu
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cloud, and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular
releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is
included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few
clicks away.
Professional services including support are available from Canonical and
hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about
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