24.04 still maxes at 550 and 555 improves on NVIDIA+Wayland performance. Also, 555 is no longer on beta for few weeks now
If it helps the PPA I use is Proprietary GPU Drivers : “Graphics Drivers” team
But I just noticed it is exactly as you just mentioned. The current BETA is 560 now and the stable one is 555. So in another words…
Talking seriously, I think Ubuntu takes their time with them for testing purposes if that helps. Sometimes Nvidia releases something with issues (Like the 560 with Proton issues) so Ubuntu waits to not have a million users reporting bugs till critical things are fixed.
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Moved this to Kernel as the Kernel Team maintains the availability of the NVIDIA drivers in the repository.
Note that Ubuntu doesn’t support external PPAs, so if you add a PPA, you’re on your own for support or you must get support from the PPA owner. Furthermore, packaging conflict avoidance cannot be guaranteed, which can cause problems with updates and upgrades.
Yeap, thats comes with the PPA territory.
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A fresh build of 555 appeared in the PPA mentioned above just a couple of hours ago.
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@YamiYukiSenpai the PPA has been updated but if it helps, I personally would recommend staying in 555 until 560 (which is also available in the PPA) is released, instead of beta. My recommendation comes because I just spent a bit over a month testing Ubuntu 24.04 with 29 games and the performance of 555 right now is above Windows 10 or 11.
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waiting for debian update.
Is there any announcement when new versions are released to the official ubuntu repo?
From what I have seen, whenever a new version for the specific branch you have installed gets updated by Nvidia, Ubuntu takes a couple of days to test it then push it live to your desktop. You will eventually see an update pending about it via the Software Updater.
Again, note tha part about branches, which means, if you are on 550, you will only get updates for 550. Same for 555, 560, etc…
If you wanted to update to the latest version supported by your ubuntu version press the SUPER button and type driver:
Then open the app and you will see something like this highlighting the ones working on the Ubuntu version you have:
And that is how you will know if there is another newer branch of drivers, in which one you are one, and to which other you could upgrade to.
Those responsible for updating the nvidia driver for Ubuntu could give more information. Maybe then we wouldn’t have to keep an eye on an external ppa.
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I’m curious, why was 565 only the server version and not the “regular” one?
Also, why is that version totally absent in Plucky (haven’t checked Oracular). Seems to be available on Noble only.
And why was 560 never released in Noble?
Ask @kuba-t-pawlak or @eduarddv - who touched it last, according to the changelog 
565-gaming was only released by NVIDIA a week ago, so it is in flight.
565-server is a one time release that is not going to be ever updated by NVIDIA. Since Plucky is in deep development, and still 4 months away from release, we are not going to include a branch that is already dead, and would require creating transitional packages to get people off it. 570 long term support branch will be available in February and that’s what Plucky will include.
560 in Oracular only was due to a decision to have the the latest driver, regardless of their support level, in interim release, and any issues contained there, not polluting a stable release that Noble is. Noble will only get LTS and PB branches, that 560 and 565 are not.
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