A community maintained dark theme, Yaru, with accessibility improvements in navigation and new file icons.A smoother graphics experience and better fractional scaling with Wayland by default – Firefox, OBS Studio and others are built with Electron and Flutter to take advantage of Wayland automatically.An Active Directory, to help developers manage workstations through configure system settings, directly from an AD domain controller.An enterprise partnership with Microsoft, to bring native Microsoft Active Directory integration with the support for Microsoft SQL server, deployed on-prem or through the Azure Marketplace.Although for NVIDIA users, right now you're likely stuck with Xorg until NVIDIA put out their upcoming newer drivers with work merged ready. Quite a few application have been ported already, while others will be run through XWayland.

On the desktop the biggest change is probably that it uses Wayland by default which Canonical say is a 'significant leap forward in security'. With the Ubuntu 21.04 release today it will provide at least 9 months of updates. The current LTS is Ubuntu 20.04 supported until April 2025 with the next being Ubuntu 22.04 due April 2022. Continuing the gradual improvements towards the next LTS (Long Term Support) release, Ubuntu 21.04 is officially out now to bring some of the latest enhancements to the popular Linux distribution.īetween each LTS release, Canonical puts out one of these production-ready interim releases every six months with all the latest work.

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