Canonical Announces Availability of Upgrade-Path to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

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Canonical Announces Availability of Upgrade-Path to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

2026-09-30 10:00:00

Canonical officially opened the upgrade path from Ubuntu 24.04.x LTS to 26.04.1 LTS yesterday, around one month after the release of Ubuntu 26.04.1. Users of Ubuntu 24.04.x will receive a notification over the coming days once the upgrade becomes available to them. The corresponding notification is unlikely to appear on all systems at the same time. Canonical merely states that users will be prompted to upgrade shortly.

Delayed upgrade path

The fact that more than a month passed between the maintenance release and the opening of the upgrade path for existing LTS installations is unusual. Canonical had not yet enabled the upgrade path at that point, as several fixes were still required, particularly in connection with the newly introduced Rust Coreutils.

Who does the upgrade affect?

The upgrade from Ubuntu 24.04.x to the current LTS release 26.04.1 only impacts users who run a plain Ubuntu installation on their TUXEDO devices instead of TUXEDO OS. For them, upgrading to 26.04.1 brings, among other things, the current GNOME 50 desktop, which only supports Wayland sessions, as well as the integration of tools rewritten in Rust such as sudo-rs and rust-coreutils. The upgrade also introduces seven new default applications. We've already covered the new features in Ubuntu 26.04 in a separate news article.

Not for TUXEDO OS

TUXEDO OS users are not impacted by Canonical’s release of the upgrade path. As we already explained in the article How TUXEDO OS, Ubuntu and Kubuntu will move forward:

TUXEDO OS Legacy will receive regular support until mid-2027. Beyond that, we will continue to provide updates for security-relevant and central components until 2029. This includes, in particular, web browsers, the kernel and other important parts of the base system. We will also maintain the upgrade path to Kubuntu 26.04 that we have tested until then.

As soon as the upgrade path becomes available, which is expected from autumn onwards, we will provide detailed information about the procedure. Until then, no action is required. Please continue to install the regularly offered updates and do not perform a manual distribution upgrade.

The move of TUXEDO OS to a Debian base does not mean that Ubuntu will disappear from our portfolio. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will continue to be available as a preinstalled operating system. This means you will still be able to deliberately choose a traditional Ubuntu LTS installation for your TUXEDO computer.

Users with an Ubuntu installation who later want to switch to TUXEDO OS „Continuous Debian“ can either upgrade to 26.04.1 or remain on 24.04.x until then. In either case, switching from Ubuntu to TUXEDO OS at a later date will require a fresh installation. Following extensive internal testing, we released the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS installation via WebFAI already in mid-June.

We strongly recommend that you back up your important data before upgrading.

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