--- title: Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available description: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is now available, consolidating fixes and improvements since the initial 26.04 LTS launch. It ships GNOME 50 with full... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/upgrade-your-desktop-ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-is-now-available-xmdzcqkuh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available | daily.dev og:description: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is now available, consolidating fixes and improvements since the initial 26.04 LTS launch. It ships GNOME 50 with full... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/upgrade-your-desktop-ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-is-now-available-xmdzcqkuh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xmDZcQkuh.png og:image:alt: Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available **[Ubuntu](https://daily.dev/sources/ubuntu)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is now available, consolidating fixes and improvements since the initial 26.04 LTS launch. It ships GNOME 50 with full Wayland adoption, new default apps (Papers, Loupe, Ptyxis, Resources), and a unified App Center for debs and snaps. Developer and AI tooling includes updated toolchains for Python, Rust, Ruby, Go, PHP, and Perl, plus native distribution of NVIDIA CUDA, NVIDIA DOCA-OFED via PPA, and AMD ROCm in official repositories. Security enhancements include generally available TPM-backed full-disk encryption, a Security Center control plane, expanded memory-safe components (Rust kernel drivers, sudo-rs, uutils coreutils), post-quantum default cryptography, confidential computing support on Intel TDX and AMD SEV, Arm64 Livepatch, and authd for cloud identity authentication. Ubuntu Pro extends security maintenance to 10 years, with a Legacy Support add-on reaching 15 years. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What's new in Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS compared to the initial 26.04 release? Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is a stability-focused point release consolidating fixes identified since the original 26.04 LTS launch in a few months prior. It ships GNOME 50 with full Wayland adoption (no more X.org), TPM-backed full-disk encryption now generally available, expanded memory-safe system components like sudo-rs and uutils, and post-quantum hybrid key exchange enabled by default. _Track LTS point releases and security defaults on daily.dev before planning a fleet upgrade._ ### Does Ubuntu 26.04 LTS support NVIDIA CUDA out of the box? Yes, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is the first Ubuntu release to natively distribute NVIDIA CUDA as part of its official software repositories. NVIDIA DOCA-OFED for high-performance networking is also available through an official PPA starting with this release, alongside AMD ROCm now included in Ubuntu's repositories for AMD Instinct and Radeon GPU workloads. _Developers picking a Linux distro for GPU-accelerated AI work can follow toolchain news like this on daily.dev._ ### What memory-safe tools does Ubuntu 26.04 LTS include to replace traditional coreutils? Ubuntu 26.04 LTS includes sudo-rs and the uutils coreutils, which are memory-safe Rust reimplementations of foundational tools such as sudo and ls. GNU implementations remain available for compatibility, and this release also expands the number of Rust-based kernel drivers and subsystems, marking the first LTS to broaden memory-safe components this significantly. _Sysadmins weighing memory-safety tradeoffs in core tooling can follow these shifts via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Awesome New Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is Here](https://daily.dev/posts/the-awesome-new-ubuntu-26-04-lts-is-here-nemsmrbax) · It's Foss · 126 upvotes · 14 comments - [Ubuntu 26.04 LTS upgrade now open for Ubuntu 25.10 users](https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-26-04-lts-upgrade-now-open-for-ubuntu-25-10-users-qxm2ztlpc) · omg\! ubuntu\! · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Should you upgrade your Linux desktop to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS?](https://daily.dev/posts/should-you-upgrade-your-linux-desktop-to-ubuntu-26-04-lts--pudhh8idl) · All Things Open · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#ubuntu](https://daily.dev/tags/ubuntu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/upgrade-your-desktop-ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-is-now-available-xmdzcqkuh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/upgrade-your-desktop-ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-is-now-available-xmdzcqkuh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/upgrade-your-desktop-ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-is-now-available-xmdzcqkuh"},"datePublished":"2026-09-29T13:35:15.952Z","dateModified":"2026-09-29T13:35:44.315Z","description":"Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is now available, consolidating fixes and improvements since the initial 26.04 LTS launch. 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