Introduction

We are preparing Kubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04 LTS) for release in April, 2022. With this Beta pre-release, you can see what we are testing in preparation for our next version.

NOTE:

This is Beta Release. Kubuntu Beta Releases are NOT recommended for:

• Regular users who are not aware of pre-release issues
• Anyone who needs a stable system
• Anyone uncomfortable running a possibly frequently broken system
• Anyone in a production environment with data or workflows that need to be reliable

Kubuntu Beta Releases are recommended for:

• Regular users who want to help us test by finding, reporting, and/or fixing bugs
• Kubuntu, KDE, and Qt developers

Please report your installation results on the Release tracker.

General bug reporting guidelines can be found here: ReportingBugs

For Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and other flavours you can also take part in the testing week for the Beta. [|LINK HERE for info]].

Getting Kubuntu 22.04 Beta

Upgrading from 21.10 or 20.04

To upgrade to a Kubuntu 22.04 pre-release, run sudo do-release-upgrade -d from a command line.

Download a Disk Image

Download a Bootable image. Direct downloads, torrents, and zysnc are available as options.

New features and changes in 22.04 Beta

Core desktop and applications

Plasma 5.24: simple by default, powerful when needed

Plasma 5.24 has been developed to make it smoother to use while retaining the familiar setup.

KDE Apps updates, including KDE Gear 21.12 and other updated apps

Web browser and office suite

• Firefox 98 snap is the default browser.

• LibreOffice 7.3 is provided by default in the full installation.

Qt

Kubuntu 22.04 Beta ships with Qt 5.15.2. Update to 5.15.3 is expected soon after the beta release.

Other highlights/notes

Plasma Wayland session

• A Plasma Wayland session is available for testing by installing the plasma-workspace-wayland package, but is not supported. A Wayland session can then be started by selecting it at the login screen.

Known issues

Installer and live session

• (1681144) Clicking on URLs in Kubuntu Installer Slideshow does nothing

• (1681830) Ubiquity installer - No Label shown for where to enter LVM Encryption Passwords fields

• (1706859) Auto-selected keyboard layout no longer matches chosen region on "Where are you" page

ZFS on root installer support

This was not implemented for the KDE front-end to the Ubiquity installer.

Other issues

• All bugs tagged with Kubuntu

• (1944468) Electron applications all crash upon launch

Older bugs:

• (1442512) Apport-kde crash when reporting bugs

Feedback

Development of Kubuntu 22.04, Jammy Jellyfish, is ongoing and bugs are fixed every day. Before reporting bugs, please ensure your system is up to date. For verifying installation related bugs, updated disk images are available from Daily bootable images for standard PCs and laptops.

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