{"id":228020,"date":"2026-03-26T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-released-powered-by-linux-7-0-gnome-50-mesa-26-0\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:40:15","slug":"ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-released-powered-by-linux-7-0-gnome-50-mesa-26-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-released-powered-by-linux-7-0-gnome-50-mesa-26-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Released: Powered By Linux 7.0 + GNOME 50 + Mesa 26.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Ubuntu-26.04-Beta\">Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Released: Powered By Linux 7.0 + GNOME 50 + Mesa 26.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Ubuntu-26.04-Beta\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Ubuntu-26.04-Beta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 20:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right on schedule the beta for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available for testing. This is a great opportunity to help test this release ahead of the official Long Term Support release due out on 23 April.<\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu 26.04 &#8220;Resolute Raccoon&#8221; was released this evening with the latest packages, including the still-in-development Linux 7.0, kernel, the latest GNOME 50.0 desktop components by default, the fresh Mesa 26.0 graphics drivers, Python 3.14, GCC 15.2, and a wealth of other software updates since Ubuntu 25.10 last October.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 26.04 Beta is available for editions such as Ubuntu Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud products, but also the Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavors.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=ubuntu_2604_beta_med\" alt=\"Ubuntu 26.04 beta\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Downloads and more details on Ubuntu 26.04 Beta via the mailing list announcement.<\/p>\n<p>More Ubuntu 26.04 benchmarks are continuing at Phoronix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Ubuntu-26.04-Beta\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Released: Powered By Linux 7.0 + GNOME 50 + Mesa 26.0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=ubuntu_2604_beta","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,131,79],"class_list":["post-228020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-lubuntu","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228020"}],"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=228020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228022,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228020\/revisions\/228022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}