The Edubuntu Council (@amypenguin and @eeickmeyer) is pleased to announce Edubuntu 25.10 Beta, codenamed “Questing Quokka”. While it is free of any showstopper installer bugs and is representative of what will be the final release, bugs will be found within.
Desktop (amd64) and Raspberry Pi 5 (arm64+raspi) Images may be downloaded from https://cdimages.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/25.10/beta .
New Features
- This release includes GNOME 49.
- Evolution, an all-in-one Personal Information and Groupware Suite, is included this release alongside Geary.
- This release includes some additional educational games.
Known Issues
Upon first boot, the system will reboot. This is normal, and is the mechanism to set the logo for the login screen.FIXED- The Ubuntu welcome app branding does not match Edubuntu. We’re working on ways to resolve this.
On the Raspberry Pi, the first login will have the Ubuntu logo as opposed to the Edubuntu logo.FIXED- 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.