April 2021 – Lubuntu

29 Apr

Lubuntu 18.04 LTS End of Life and Current Support Statuses

Lubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) was released April 27, 2018 and will reach End of Life on Friday, April 30, 2021. This means that after that date there will be no further security updates or bugfixes released. We highly recommend that you re-install with 20.04 as soon as possible if you are still running 18.04.

After April 30th, the only supported releases of Lubuntu will be 20.04 (until April 2023), 20.10 (until July 2021), and 21.04 (until January 2022). All other releases of Lubuntu will be considered unsupported, and will no longer receive any further updates (or support) from the Lubuntu team.

You can find instructions on how to install Lubuntu in our manual.

Note, due to the extensive changes required for the shift in desktop environments, the Lubuntu team does not support upgrading from 18.04 or below to any greater release. Doing so will result in a broken system. If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install. The installation image can be obtained from our downloads page.

For further details please refer to our forum post.

22 Apr

Lubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) Released!

Thanks to all the hard work from our contributors, Lubuntu 21.04 has been released. With the codename Hirsute Hippo, Lubuntu 21.04 is the 20th release of Lubuntu, the sixth release of Lubuntu with LXQt as the default desktop environment.
Support lifespanLubuntu 21.04 will be supported until January 2022. Our main focus will be on this and future releases.
Lubuntu 20.04 LTS will be supported until April 2023. For 20.04 LTS, we are limiting changes to critical fixes and underlying system changes shipped with all other Ubuntu flavors.
What is Lubuntu?Lubuntu is an official Ubuntu flavor which uses the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment (LXQt). The project’s goal is to provide a lightweight yet functional Linux distribution based on a rock-solid Ubuntu base. Lubuntu provides a simple but modern and powerful graphical user interface, and comes with a wide variety of applications so you can browse, email, chat, play, and be productive.
You can find the following major applications and toolkits installed by default in this release:
LXQt 0.16.0 – with many improvements over 0.15, you can go here for more information.
LXQt Archiver 0.3.0 which is based on Engrampa, is now included.
Qt 5.15.2
Mozilla Firefox 87.0, which will receive updates from the Ubuntu Security Team throughout the support cycle of the release.
The LibreOffice 7.1.2 suite.
VLC 3.0.12, for viewing media and listening to music.
Featherpad 0.17.1, for notes and code editing.
Discover Software Center 5.21.4, for an easy, graphical way to install and update software.
Our update notifier application received an update. The new update adds the packages and versions to the tree view to see the pending updates better. In addition, Update Notifier now has a separate tree view for security updates. Update Notifier was developed by Lubuntu Member Hans Möller. Update Notifier also lets you update your system from within the application itself.
You can find a variety of other applications installed which aim to enhance your experience while staying out of the way of your normal workflow.
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01 Apr

Lubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) BETA testing

We are pleased to announce that the beta images for Lubuntu 21.04 have been released!While we have reached the bugfix-only stage of our development cycle, these images are not meant to be used in a production system. We highly recommend joining our development group or our forum to let us know about any issues.
Ubuntu Testing WeekUbuntu, and flavors such as Lubuntu, are having a testing session (hashtag #UbuntuTestingWeek, #UTW) during the first week of April, to encourage as many people as possible to help test our new beta, and help make it the best release yet of Lubuntu.
You can read more about testing week and ways to test on our Discourse Post
Getting the downloadYou can download the Hirsute Hippo daily build here.
Thanks!Thanks in advance to those of you who can help, and please reply on discourse with any issues, concerns, or questions!