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Ubuntu 26.10, code-name Stonking Stingray, is now available for beta testing!

The Beta was released last night, one week behind the scheduled date. The Ubuntu Team announced:

The Ubuntu Release team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud products.

Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed “Stonking Stingray”, continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

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Just a week before the upcoming Beta release, Ubuntu developer team announced the snapshot 4 for the next Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray.

I’d like to announce the fourth successful publication of the Stonking Stingray monthly snapshot – Stonking Snapshot 4. You can find the images on cdimage.ubuntu.com …

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Ubuntu developer team announced the default wallpaper for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 yesterday, along with the winning images from the wallpaper competition.

As before, the new default wallpaper is made of a purple background with mascot (stingray) in center. Similar to the one for 26.04, it uses a large, curved origami crease in the background.

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Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3, the third monthly development release of the next Ubuntu version, is available to download!

The new snapshot was scheduled for July 30th. It’s finally available a few days ago as the final snapshot, while, the next release will be beta schedule for September 24th according to the announcement.

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The wallpaper competition for Ubuntu 26.10, Stonking Stingray, is now open for submission! Top TWO of the 3 categories will be included in the .iso images.

Everyone can participate, by either submitting an image taken from a camera or made by digital creative tools, or just voting your favorite ones!

And, you can get cool wallpaper images there that are free for both personal and commercial use.

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Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2, the second monthly development release, was officially announced last night!

The new development release finally added back the .iso image for Intel/AMD platform, and, introduced new cdimage download tree.

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Ubuntu 26.10, the next Ubuntu version planned for October 15, is finally available for testing on AMD and Intel PCs / laptops.

The development of Ubuntu 26.10, code-name Stonking Stingray, was started in last month. It however lacked the .iso desktop image for testing on modern amd64 platform, even in the first snapshot release.

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The first monthly development release, Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1, is available to download!

Ubuntu developer team announced this snapshot last night, though a few images are missing, including Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop image for modern Intel/AMD platform.

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