{"id":50205,"date":"2025-12-13T12:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=50205"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:10:05","slug":"the-second-snapshot-release-of-ubuntu-26-04-lts-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/the-second-snapshot-release-of-ubuntu-26-04-lts-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second Snapshot Release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is Available"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ubuntu Team announced the second development release of Ubuntu 26.04, Resolute Snapshot 2, yesterday afternoon (UTC time).<\/p>\n

The date was moved up by a week, because of end-of-year (EOY) shutdown and the developers need more time to fix issues before holidays.<\/p>\n

Whilst the snapshot was planned for next week, we wanted to do it a week earlier so as to give ourselves some time to fix anything that might break ahead of the EOY shutdown from w\/c December 22nd.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ubuntu 26.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release with a total of 15 years support: 5-years standard support, 5-years Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM), and 5 years of security coverage (for paid customers).<\/p>\n

The snapshot so far is still powered by Kernel 6.17 and features Gnome Desktop 49. There’s NO visual difference compare to the last snapshot release<\/b>. Though, you may keep an eye on this on-going release note page<\/a> for the updates.<\/p>\n

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According to the road map<\/a>, Ubuntu 26.04 will have 2 new default applications: Showtime<\/b> video player, and Resources<\/b> system monitor and task manager.<\/p>\n

It will continue improving the NVIDIA on Wayland experience, introduce Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) based fingerprint authentication, add more control for TPM-backed full disk encryption (e.g., ability to add\/remove PIN or passphrase after installation, re-encrypt a disk via Security Center), unified software management, and Ubuntu Pro on WSL.<\/p>\n

And, it will sadly exclude Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Unity as the official flavors in next LTS<\/a>, because the two flavors lack of maintainers and miss the deadline of LTS re-qualification.<\/p>\n

Get Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 2<\/h3>\n

NOTE: This is a development release that’s NOT ready for production use!<\/b><\/p>\n

The .iso<\/code> images for Desktop and Server, as well as Netboot tarball, WSL, and pre-install server images are available to download via the link below:<\/p>\n

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Download Ubuntu 26.04<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

For desktop and education users, the snapshot also includes the .iso<\/code> images for all the official flavors, which are available to download via the link below:<\/p>\n

For Ubuntu MATE and Unity, the iso images are automated builds without maintainers behind them.<\/b><\/p>\n