This version of Ubuntu, which was released on October 2025, is now nearing the end of life period. Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka brought Linux 6.17, systemd 257.9, .NET 10.0, and various new versions of different packages. It's a short term release that is supported for nine months, as opposed to long-term releases. According to an announcement made on the mailing list, the support period is now becoming closer to the finish, with July 9th, 2026 being the day that Ubuntu 25.10 will no longer be supported.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka was released a week ago, and it brought many new exciting features. Sadly, it appears that it has broken Flatpak support, as users were encountering errors when trying to install any Flatpak application, and bug reports, such as this one, were being landed to Launchpad. When Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka was released, users have discovered that the installation of any Flatpak application fails with error messages stating that it's unable to unmount revokefs-fuse, which is a fatal bug.

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The final release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka is now live! All development has been finalized, and the release team has made an official announcement of the release of this version of Ubuntu as you can see here. Upgrades to Questing Quokka will now include what's new for this release, such as GNOME 49 and updated software, which is simplified as in below.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka is here! Explore its new Wayland-only GNOME session, Rust-based tools, TPM encryption, and Linux kernel 6.17.

Canonical setzt mit Ubuntu 25.10 vor der nächsten LTS-Ausgabe 26.04 seine Bestrebungen zur Modernisierung des Betriebssystems an vielen Stellen um.

After Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin was released, the Ubuntu team started the development of the next version of Ubuntu, called Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka. Since then, new versions of software have been introduced with new features and bug fixes. Please note that this is the last release schedule article we'll publish for all future Ubuntu versions. You'll have to follow the release schedule that we'll link once development starts and the schedule gets published.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka beta is released! Download installation images for Ubuntu 25.10 Desktop, Server, WSL and official flavours.

After Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin was released, the Ubuntu team started the development of the next version of Ubuntu, called Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka. Since then, new versions of software have been introduced with new features and bug fixes. However, like all the other development schedules for all the Ubuntu versions while they're in development, the feature freezes were to be expected in the last week of the last three months.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Snapshot 4 has been released! This is the fourth and final successful monthly snapshot for Questing Quokka.

The official wallpaper and the charming mascot for Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" have just been revealed!

Today, the Ubuntu Release Management Team has published their first monthly newsletter on Discourse to make more people aware of the news of Ubuntu development and release each month. August and July were very interesting when it comes to Ubuntu, because Ubuntu 24.04.3 was released, alongside the Oracular Oriole end of life. Alongside these changes is the "dangerous" daily build images for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka where the team publishes DVD images that represent daily builds of Ubuntu 25.10, but with one significant key feature: all snaps will be updated to their latest versions using the…

截至今日，Ubuntu25.10 “QuestingQuokka”在10月发布稳定版本之前处于功能冻结状态。随着功能冻结的开始，Ubuntu的开发重点将主要转移到在预计的10月9日发布日期之前进行测试和修复错误。

As of today, Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka has entered the feature freeze according to the release schedule that you can see here. Also, you can consult the release notes that has the tentative versions of the major toolsets and the packages, since the feature freeze, here. Generally, all packages now have to go through the bug fixing stage, which means that there will be no features being added to them to ensure stability of the release, which will happen this October.

The third monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 25.10, code named Questing Quokka, is released. Learn about the exciting new features of Ubuntu 25.10

After Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin was released, the Ubuntu team started the development of the next version of Ubuntu, called Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka. Since then, new versions of software have been introduced with new features and bug fixes. However, like all the other development schedules for all the Ubuntu versions while they're in development, the feature freezes were to be expected in the last week of the last three months.