The Ubuntu Budgie team are pleased to announce the 25.04 release (#pluckypuffin) - as always free to download and install!

you know what to do 😉

https://ubuntubudgie.org/2025/04/ubuntu-budgie-25-04-release-notes/

Our fellow Sam Lane shows us how easy it is to use DigitalOcean to spin up the infrastructure we need for our projects, labs, and experiments. Thank you DigitalOcean for being an awesome sponsor of Ubuntu Budgie!

https://ubuntubudgie.org/2025/01/a-quick-look-at-digitalocean/

Happy new year of the Budgie and happy new section of the Ubuntu Budgie Welcome app! 🎉
Get involved, help us test and translate the upcoming Email Ballot.

https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/call-for-testing-and-translations-email-ballot/7547

Ubuntu Budgie team meets once a month to discuss the development of Budgie Desktop Environment and Ubuntu Budgie. You can check our latest meeting report on the Ubuntu Budgie Discourse.

https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-team-meeting-15-december-2024/7530

🎉 #ubuntubudgie 24.10 has been released! 🎉

https://ubuntubudgie.org/2024/10/ubuntu-budgie-24-10-release-notes/

@bradenhynes we can certainly have a look at it. Do you mind adding a post on the Ubuntu Budgie Discourse so we can track the conversation there?

#ubuntubudgie 24.04 Long Term Support has been released. Go grab!

Free as always - spread the news.

https://ubuntubudgie.org/2024/04/ubuntu-budgie-24-04-released/

Cheers from all the Ubuntu Budgie team

Time for a final round of testing before the release of Ubuntu Budgie Noble Numbat. If you want to get involved, check our release notes and help us test the daily ISO!

https://ubuntubudgie.org/2024/04/ubuntu-budgie-24-04-release-notes/

Birdwatching in the latest daily build of Ubuntu Budgie...

Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 LTS wallpaper contest is still open. If you want a chance to have your artwork included in Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 for 3 years, please check this post:

https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-24-04-wallpaper-contest/7056

woot woot!

For #ubuntubudgie support will be available officially for #ubuntu 24.04LTS from April 2024 to May 2027.

This will be our fourth LTS cycle - we are looking forward to you joining the journey with us.

https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10-9-released

Great work by all contributors and testers!

Budgie 10.9 will be packaged for Debian Experimental and will make it into Ubuntu 24.04 as well.

buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/state-of-the-budgie-2023

^^^
its been a great year for #ubuntubudgie with our friends in Arch, Solus, Fedora and many more budgie flavours.

Roll-on 2024 and beyond!

The various #Ubuntu flavors have been working to integrate the new Flutter-based installer, with @ubuntubudgie taking the lead and helping everybody move along.

In @xubuntu, we've updated the graphics and slides to more closely match today's Ubiquity installer. Now we've got a snap package building and we're moving closer to having an ISO ready to test.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOdaxhn14Yo

If, for some reason, the Flutter installer doesn't work out, we're still considering Calamares as an alternative.

Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 LTS Wallpaper Contest is now live. Check the discourse post below, and contribute to a fabulous release of Ubuntu Budgie!

https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/ubuntu-budgie-24-04-wallpaper-contest/7056

Lots of different ways to get in touch with the #ubuntubudgie team and the wider ubuntu budgie community.

Get involved, feedback and help out - everyone is welcome.

Just fire-up budgie-welcome from the menu and click.

PSA: budgie-desktop v10.8 and the latest budgie-extras are available for all 22.04 LTS users - so if you want to use 'the latest' without moving to 23.10 - you can!

v10.8 is described here in our 23.10 release notes https://ubuntubudgie.org/2023/09/ubuntu-budgie-23-10-release-notes/

Enable the budgie desktop backports repository through budgie-welcome - recommendations

or add our budgie-backports PPA https://launchpad.net/~ubuntubudgie/+archive/ubuntu/backports-budgie

You'll get the very latest budgie-desktop, budgie-control-center and of course our budgie-extras applets and apps.

Enjoy!

Thought we share this - the wayland only waydroid running on budgie's new wayland compositor magpie-wm.

Nice work on the new budgie window manager by @buddiesofbudgie @serebit !

Thanks to team member Nikola our website has gone through a major facelift focusing on delivering key information quickly and more easily - 'simplicity and elegance' in action

Brilliant effort Nikola!

https://ubuntubudgie.org/