{"id":213695,"date":"2026-02-15T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released-with-linux-6-17-mesa-25-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:50:07","slug":"ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released-with-linux-6-17-mesa-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released-with-linux-6-17-mesa-25-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS released with Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released\">Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS released with Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released\">https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-15 03:27:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.omgubuntu.co.uk\">www.omgubuntu.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS is now available to download.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth point release in the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS \u2018Noble Numbat\u2019 series since it launched in April 2024. The new installer image (ISO) contains all of the security, bug and software updates released since the Ubuntu 24.04.3 release last August.<\/p>\n<p>More notably, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS ships with a new hardware enablement stack (HWE) offering <strong>Linux kernel 6.17<\/strong> and <strong>Mesa 25.2.8<\/strong>, both back-ported from Ubuntu 25.10 and available to install on existing Ubuntu 24.04 systems \u2013 no fresh install required.<\/p>\n<p>Updated Wayland Protocols are also included in the Ubuntu 24.04.4 HWE update. This has no huge impact on most users, but helps provide features that some recent software releases can use with the Wayland display server.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018point\u2019 of point releases is to make sure that long-term support releases are able to boot and work on hardware that wouldn\u2019t have been released at the time the original ISO was made (April 2024). It also cuts down on the amount of updates that need to installed.<\/p>\n<p>If you already run Ubuntu 24.04 LTS you don\u2019t need to download the new ISO and do a clean install. In fact, there\u2019s nothing here you won\u2019t already have \u2013 assuming you\u2019ve been installing updates, that is!<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Updated packages in Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS<\/h3>\n<p>Look for the new kernel and version string to see if you have it<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS doesn\u2019t introduce any major new user-facing features, but Linux kernel 6.17 and the Mesa graphics driver update offer scores of low-level enablements and fixes that improve performance, albeit subtly \u2013 unless you\u2019re a gamer. <\/p>\n<p>Updated packages on the new ISO include: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Linux kernel 6.17<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mesa 25.2.8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Snapd 2.73<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>LibreOffice 25.8.4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mozilla Firefox 147<\/strong> (snap; auto-updates to newer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ISO also packs in scores of bug fixes, security patches and other in-series updates to noble\u2019s underlying package set. Far too many (and minor) to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS released with Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2 https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/2026\/02\/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released Publish Date: 2026-02-15 03:27:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.omgubuntu.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ubuntu-24044-released.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,57,79],"class_list":["post-213695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-security","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213697,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213695\/revisions\/213697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}