A shiny new release fresh out of the oven

The Kubuntu and KDE team has been hard at work for the last 6 months, which has culminated into a rocking Kubuntu 14.04 release which introduces a whole bunch of new features, the most important of which are :

• A new semantic search framework for KDE SC 4.13, leading to faster email and file searches
• Automatic error reporting in order to improve the quality of KDE and Kubuntu
• A new driver manager to make it simpler to activate hardware that requires proprietary drivers
• Notifications for when additional drivers or language packs can be installed to improve your Kubuntu experience
• A new touchpad management app for laptops
• Misc. bug fixes and features that can be found here

Kubuntu 14.04 is a LTS release, so while introducing new applications, we’ve also taken into account personal and business users who would want to run it for extended periods of time, which is why the Kubuntu team makes the following promise :

• Kubuntu 14.04 will keep receiving security bug fixes when such fixes are available from KDE upstream for the next 5 years
• New releases of the KDE SC will be backported to 14.04 and be available via Kubuntu PPA’s for the next 2 years
• A long-term upgrade path to the next LTS release

Along with the above, the Ubuntu team also has plans to backport new Xorg and friends releases as well as new kernel releases as part of their LTS Enablement stack, making sure that your hardware performance keeps improving over the time of 5 years.

All of this makes Kubuntu the ideal distribution to use for enterprise rollouts, OEM’s and of course regular users who want a longer support cycle ( as opposed to the regular, 9 month, support cycle )

You can download your copy of Kubuntu 14.04 from here. We also have some Kubuntu swag that you can purchase over here!