Happy spring Edubuntu community. We are glad to let you know that we’ve released Edubuntu 25.04 and we’ve replaced some of our apps that were no longer supported with similar applications so you can still get the same wonderful experience. Many places across the world are just a few months away from summer and we want to make sure Edubuntu stays strong for the summer months for supplemental learning over the summer.
This release is dedicated to the memory of Steve Langasek. Without Steve’s guidance, enthusiasm for education, and volunteering to be the Release Team member to bring Edubuntu back, Edubuntu would not be around today. He was on his child’s school PTA, and passionately wanted to see the next generation learn. We owe him a debt of gratitude and he is dearly missed.
Download
Desktop (amd64) and Raspberry Pi 5 (arm64+raspi) Images may be downloaded from https://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/25.04/release .
New Features
- This release includes GNOME 48.
- For Qt-based/KDE apps, we now include theming via Kvantum, mostly as a workaround for the inability to change the accent color in those applications. This theme is based on GNOME’s libadwaita, on which the default Ubuntu theme (Yaru) is based. Unfortunately, the colors don’t automatically change if you change them in Settings, so if you want a uniform look to the accent color, you’ll have to change it in Kvantum Manager. Sadly, this only supports Qt6 applications, so Qt5 applications will still have blue accent colors and look/feel dated.
- GNOME Notes is dead upstream. For that reason, we have switched to the resurrected GNote.
- Likewise, GNOME Dictionary is also dead upstream. We have replaced it with Artha, which is more of a thesaurus but does dictionary operations as well.
Known Issues
- Upon first boot, the system will reboot. This is normal, and is the mechanism to set the logo for the login screen.
- Artha will not launch on a Wayland session.
- The Ubuntu welcome app branding does not match Edubuntu. We’re working on ways to resolve this, and next cycle it looks like we’ll likely have a fluter-based welcome application to replace
gnome-initial-setup. - On the Raspberry Pi, the first login will have the Ubuntu logo as opposed to the Edubuntu logo.
- As Edubuntu shares a desktop with and is based on Ubuntu Desktop, any known issues can be found in the official Ubuntu Release Notes .
- Individual applications included with Edubuntu may have their own known issues. Please consult upstream release notes for those applications before filing bug reports.
How To Contact
Leave us a note here on Ubuntu Discourse!
Our mailing lists are getting inundated with spam and there is no proper way to fix the filtering. It uses an outdated version of MailMan, so this release announcement will be the last release announcement we send out via email. To get support, we encourage using Ubuntu Discourse for support, and for community clicking the notification bell in the Edubuntu category there
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Special Thanks
Huge thanks for this release go to:
- Aaron Prisk (@aaronprisk): Website, Website Maintenance
- Jeremy Bicha (@jbicha): GNOME Desktop Guidance, application suggestions
- Oliver Grawert (@ogra): Project Founder, encouragement
- Jonny Eickmeyer: Testing and Application Selection Advisor
- Erich Eickmeyer (@eeickmeyer) : Technical Leader, Merch Store
- Amy Eickmeyer (@amypenguin) : Project Leader
- Steve Langasek (@vorlon ): You are missed