Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Snapshot 3 will get GNOME 50 Beta

The upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon’s third snapshot, which will be released on January 29th, will get the beta version of GNOME 50. It’s known that the stable release of this version of Ubuntu provides the stable version of GNOME 50, but the beta version will make it to the third snapshot of the upcoming release.

Just to remind you that Ubuntu snapshots have been first implemented in Questing Quokka in an attempt to streamline the development workflow and to gives curious users early access to what will the upcoming version of Ubuntu look like, with the first ever snapshot being made released on May 29th of the last year. This will make sure that automation is used to make future Ubuntu releases, such as this release, more stable.

GNOME 50 is currently in development with the Alpha version stripping out support for the legacy X11 desktop protocol as Wayland becomes more stable. Although there are still compatibility issues with applications that use the legacy X11 protocol in a way that Wayland hasn’t solved yet, such as remote access programs, Wayland is getting better. GNOME 50 will be released on March 18th, 2026.

However, the beta version of GNOME 50 will include more stability improvements and bug fixes as we venture into both the release candidate and the final release of this desktop environment. This way, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will use GNOME 50 as the desktop environment in the final release.

You can check the Resolute Raccoon release schedule here.

Ubuntu’s Resolute Raccoon 26.04 LTS roadmap!

Ubuntu has published the Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon roadmap for the next LTS version last November, and the list of changes that will be made to this Ubuntu version is rather surprising. Those changes have been listed in the official Discourse forums since the start of the development, and we’re now at the stage where the beta version is only a month and a few days left. Full development is still ongoing, with the list of expected changes below:

• GNOME 50 will make it to the final release of Ubuntu 26.04, which is expected to be released on April 23rd, 2026. Showtime and Resources will become the new default applications in all desktop installations.
• As for Wayland on NVIDIA GPUs, including the latest GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards released last year, outstanding stability and performance issues will be fixed in this release so users with those graphics cards can now have even better experience. Wayland will become the default starting 26.04.
• The fingerprint reader support has now become more powerful, because Ubuntu 26.04 LTS delivers secure, SPDM-based fingerprint authentication, which brings more reliability to the biometrics system in certified Ubuntu devices.
• As for the built-in software sandboxing solution, Snap, its integration with the desktop has now become much better than before. Snaps will play nicer with the Ubuntu desktop, by improving app recognition and by making launchers behave more predictably.

Alongside that, there have been plans to make accessibility more visible, and the Ubuntu’s goal is to make the whole operating system accessible to all users from the very start. In enterprise environments, enhanced cloud authentication has been achieved using a first-party authentication daemon called authd. This will make enterprise authentication with different services easier and smoother, ensuring cohesive authentication across enterprise developments.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS also enhances the developer experience on Windows by introducing a better experience with consistent and predictable workflow in the latest WSL images. Ubuntu Pro is also supported, with the necessary polishes being made to provide post-release support. Documentation will also go through a huge rework to fend off old docs and add new ones, to keep the user documentation in par with the latest Ubuntu releases.

The release milestones are as follows:

• Feature Freeze: February 16th, 2026
• User Interface Freeze: March 12th, 2026
• Beta Release: March 23rd, 2026
• Final Freeze: April 16th, 2026
• Final Release: April 23rd, 2026

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.NET 8.0 LTS is not installable on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon

During development of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon, which is expected to come with .NET 10.0 LTS that was released last week, there was a proposal to remove .NET 8.0 from the list of installable software in both the runtime and the SDK forms. This was made in accordance with the comment in a 2023 .NET 6.0 bug that stated:

- We will ship the latest .NET LTS (e.g. .NET 6, 8, 10) to the latest Ubuntu LTS and backport to the -1 Ubuntu LTS and Interim releases.- We will ship .NET STS releases (.NET 7, 9, 11) only to Ubuntu Interim releases.e.g.- .NET 8 LTS will be on 22.04 LTS, 23.10 and 24.04 LTS- .NET 9 STS will be on 24.10, 25.04, 25.10- .NET 10 LTS will be on 24.04 LTS, 25.04, 25.10 and 26.04 LTS

As .NET 10.0 is a long-term release that will make its way to Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon, it has been backported to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which is the current LTS version that is supported as of the time of writing. Meanwhile, .NET 8.0 has already been backported to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish, and there is no mention of forward-porting the version to the next Ubuntu LTS version.

To satisfy this condition, all packages that are related to .NET 8.0 have been removed from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon. You can take a look at this bug’s logs here.

Starting from today, you’ll no longer be able to install .NET 8.0 from your development system from official Ubuntu repositories if you’re running the development branch of Resolute Raccoon. You’ll either have to upgrade your applications to .NET 10.0, or you’ll have to manually install .NET 8.0.

Meanwhile, the team is running into issues with packaging the final version of .NET 10.0 for the same version of Ubuntu, but those issues should be fixed soon so that developers can finally have access to the latest .NET version.

As a consequence, we had to remove all Nitrocid and BassBoom packages for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon until all packages that are related to .NET 10.0 have landed.

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon release date is known

The release schedule for the Resolute Raccoon is now known to us as Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka got released last week. The Ubuntu team is now working on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon as development has just started. As we have mentioned earlier, the repositories have been initialized for the next LTS after Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat, and the daily builds will use those repositories to help shape the future of Ubuntu.

The release schedule is now known, and you can see the full schedule here. According to the schedule, we have seen interesting dates, especially when it comes to the most important milestones, such as the final release. So, we have two big milestones:

• Beta release: March 26th after the beta freeze on March 23rd
• Final release: April 23rd, a week after the release candidate

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release schedule is not finalized yet, as development has just started, so delays could occur. Once released, it’s going to be the next version of Ubuntu for enterprise solutions to use.

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Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon will use .NET 10.0!

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is reportedly to start development in a week after the release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which was released today. This version of Ubuntu will feature the upcoming .NET 10.0 LTS release which will be supported for up to three years, with the most interesting features being in the final release. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS about to start development, .NET 10.0 would have been already updated to its second release candidate, a milestone before the final release.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is going to be the tenth long term support release, which is a very interesting milestone as we are heading towards years and years of improvements that happened to Ubuntu, starting from 2004 with the Warty Warthog. You can find out more about .NET 10.0 here.

.NET 10.0 is going to be the long-term support release for the modern .NET framework after 8.0, which was released on November 2023. Earlier, .NET 9.0 brought performance improvements, but .NET 10.0 will bring even more improvements across different areas of the framework.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will also update more frameworks and toolchains, including GCC, Python, and others, to support the latest features that will make it to the release. This will give developers new features to develop their applications, including the .NET ones, which .NET 10.0 provides.

.NET 10.0 brings improvements to the AOD applications, as well as the AVX10.2 support. It also brings C# 14, which introduces new features, such as unbound generic types support for the nameof expression.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon will be released on April 2026, while .NET 10.0 will go live on November 2025.

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has a codename: Resolute Raccoon!

This week, when Canonical is supposed to be releasing Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, the Ubuntu’s official X account has revealed some very interesting information about the next LTS that will come after Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat. The next LTS, which will be released on April 2026, will be codenamed Resolute Raccoon!

https://twitter.com/ubuntu/status/1975147272577929456

This is going to mark one of the very important development milestones for the whole Ubuntu project as it marks the tenth long term release version that will be released since the Dapper Drake appeared on June 2006. This release will be a very promising version, and it will feature some of the huge changes that will make it to the Resolute Raccoon version since Noble Numbat.

The development hasn’t started yet, but the codename is now known to the public, which is something that is very interesting, especially when it comes to long term support releases. Those releases are known for their stability and their high quality, with updates being done for twelve years for the whole support cycle.

We will let you know once development of the next LTS starts, and we will closely monitor the release as it goes, with some of our tests added to our pipeline to make sure that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon gets released in the highest quality possible.

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