Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

Key points

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, the first point release of "Resolute Raccoon", is available. It consolidates the fixes found since the launch of 26.04 LTS, and users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will shortly be prompted to upgrade directly from their desktop. Canonical's post recaps what the LTS brings for those about to move.

Upgrading

• 24.04 LTS users get the upgrade prompt on the desktop, automatically or as part of a scheduled update.
• Fresh images are on the Ubuntu download page.

Desktop

• GNOME 50, with faster animations.
• The desktop is fully on Wayland, completing the move away from X.org: per-monitor scaling, native touch and gesture support, no screen tearing, and support for the latest NVIDIA production drivers.
• Fractional scaling and variable refresh rate (VRR) are no longer experimental.
• New default applications: Papers (documents), Loupe (images), Ptyxis (terminal) and Resources (system monitor).
• Accessibility fixes across the Shell and default applications.
• The App Center shows debs and snaps side by side in one place.

Development and AI tooling

• Latest toolchains for Python, Rust, Ruby, Go, PHP and Perl.
• First Ubuntu release to distribute NVIDIA CUDA natively in its repositories; NVIDIA DOCA-OFED is available through an official PPA.
• AMD ROCm is in the repositories for AMD Instinct and Radeon GPUs.
• Workshop launches sandboxed, repeatable development environments with a single command, keeping the host isolated.

Security

• TPM-backed full-disk encryption is generally available in the installer.
• The Security Center lets administrators inspect and manage TPM-backed encryption state, recovery mechanisms, Secure Boot status and disk protection after deployment.
• More memory-safe components: new kernel drivers and subsystems in Rust, plus sudo-rs and uutils coreutils; the GNU implementations remain available for compatibility.
• Hybrid post-quantum key exchange is enabled by default, and legacy cipher support is retired.
• Host and guest support for confidential computing on Intel Trust Domain Extensions and AMD SEV.
• Canonical Livepatch reaches Arm64 for the first time.
• WSL gains cloud-init and Ubuntu Pro for WSL.
• authd authenticates against Entra ID, Google IAM and any OIDC-compliant provider, from the official repositories.

Support period

• Five years of standard security maintenance on the main repository.
• Ubuntu Pro extends coverage to 10 years and to tens of thousands of packages.
• The paid Legacy Support add-on adds another 5 years, for 15 in total.

Summary by DistroNews, based on the original post.