Would love to hear from anyone who has tried 26.04. i worked from a bootable USB. Seemed great but would like to hear from experts on how to test further.
Also I understand that the upgrade route will not be available till August. Is that correct?
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Hey @Ravi_E Iām stoked that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon 
) beta just dropped and with the full stable release hitting April 23! 
Iāve been hearing that it runs like a dream on AMD setups with smooth multimedia, gaming, and that Kubuntu runs perfectly as a daily driver.
Loving the security upgrades like Rust tools and TPM encryption, though Iām side-eyeing those forced Snaps lol!! might stick to vanilla .debs where I can.
Cautiously excited about it. Ubuntu Proās ESM mated with it should be as amazing as with 24.04 LTS+ESM.
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I tested Ubuntu 26.04 Development Branch on a 2010 Netbook, boot on live USB, It can boot, but itās not responding anywhere, lol (Intel Atom n450, intel GMA 3150, 2gb ram, and HDD) When itās released, maybe Iāll try to be reckless, Iāll install that OS
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From a privacy perspective, I am not a fan of creating an account and linking its feature entitlement to my operating system. Fifteen years of support is not quite tempting enough for me.
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Iām late, but I just joined this site, and thus just saw the post.
This is my primary box Iām replying on, and it sits on the development release, which means Iāve been using resolute since late October 2025 when resolute was setupā¦ a quick look at my logs show I last release-upgraded October 19th, so then.
To test it, mostly you just use it normally, as itās what Iām doing here. At times youāll have problems; eg. when it was the 6.17 & 6.18 kernels I canāt recall issues; but when it switched to 6.19 I recall loads of apparmor issues & big problemsā¦ theyāve been resolved now; as users discover issues, report them & theyāre thus confirmed & fixed (some very quickly too)
Use whatever programs you normally use, eg. in the noble or 24.04 cycle I use ghostwriter to preview some HTML type formatting on occasion & discovered it didnāt work (apparmor issue there too)ā¦ filed a bug report & that app was fixed within a couple of weeksā¦
Whilst most issues are discovered in the alpha stage, its also fewer users (such as myself) using the release in that stage and weāll be using fewer apps that exist in whole repository, and thus may not have discovered issues in apps we donāt use.
Iām not a GNOME desktop user except occasionally. I actually use different desktops regularly with this install being a multi-desktop install. Iām also on flavor team(s), thus Iām more likely to login with my team(s) desktops over GNOME or the Ubuntu Desktop anyway.
As for release-upgrade..
The upgrade from the prior LTS will not be reviewed and opened until AFTER the release of Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS; the first meeting of the Ubuntu Release team who review bug reports filed etc, is normally run very early on the subsequent week; releases always occur on a Thursday. This is where your āAugustā applies.
The opening of release-upgrades from the prior release (ie. 25.10 to 26.04) follows the same procedure, EXCEPT the first meeting of the Ubuntu Release team is normally the week after ISO release.
The best clues on when itāll be can usually be found in the Ubuntu Release notes, as blocker bugs are often mentioned, let alone theyāre usually provided on a Status Page on Ubuntu Discourse - that page being updated many times as situation change (ie. new bugs filed, bugs fixed etc). eg. [I had to remove link on Ubuntu Discourse as Iām new here sorry] is an example of the 24.04.1 status page, useful page for those wanting to release-upgrade from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 long ago.
[ I also wanted to report link to reporting bugs, testing of Ubuntu, but again Iām a new user here & discourse hasnāt given my those permissions yet ]
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Thank you Chris for your very comprehensive reply. Much obliged.
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Welcome to the forums @guiverc
Thereās a link for āHotā forum topics at the top of the forum. Itās a quick way to get up to speed on some of our past and present main discussions.
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