Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon

Resolute Raccoon is ready to roll out to existing Ubuntu users. Canonical has flipped the switch, and users on 24.04 will start to get offered 26.04.1. Canonical has marked the occasion with an official announcement that it's time to upgrade your desktop. Normally, a given LTS release of Ubuntu starts nagging offering the upgrade to the new release when the following LTS version gets its first point-release. This time around, there has been a substantial delay: Ubuntu 26.04.1 appeared over a month ago. The company announced a small delay in a post ubuntu-announce mailing list when 26.04.1 first appeared, saying: “Users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 26.04.1 LTS via Update Manager a couple of weeks following this release after some planned backports to address regressions in a recent version of rust-coreutils.” The delay is the fault of Rust language which is aiming to replace C, as promoted by evangelistic developers whom Linux grandees castigate until they go away. This is the same Rust uutils bundle that David Uhden Collado recently ported to OpenBSD, but which was swiftly rejected by determined defender of the C faith Theo de Raadt. (Please read the previous two paragraphs in the most sarcastic tone that you can muster.) If you want to upgrade your Ubuntu box, there are two potential methods – one command-line-based, and one using the GUI – but both are easier than the traditional Debian method. First, though, install any and all outstanding updates. For this, we entering the following the shell command, if only because it’s easier to copy-and-paste: sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y ; sudo snap refresh Because Canonical uses phased updates, you may see that some updates are “held back”. If you do, you can just run the main command again to get them: sudo apt full-upgrade -y Second time around, it may install a few more. Then reboot, and with any luck you will get offered the Resolute Raccoon upgrade. If you have Ubuntu installed on a relatively small partition, it may be as well to clear the APT package manager’s cache before you start. This can free up a lot of room. On our test VM, where we do this regularly, we got 1 GB back: liam-proven@noble-vbox:~$ df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 24G 18G 4.3G 81% / liam-proven@noble-vbox:~$ sudo apt clean liam-proven@noble-vbox:~$ df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 24G 17G 5.9G 74% / We reckon a free gigabyte for one command is pretty good. If you don’t get offered the upgrade automatically, run the “Software Updater” tool. If you don’t see it in your preferred app launcher, you can run the update-manager command in a shell. If you have any outstanding updates to your current version, you will be offered them first. Once they are all done, you should see a message saying: “The software on this computer is up-to-date. “However, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available (you have 24.04).” Alternatively, if you prefer to do these things from the shell: liam-proven@noble-vbox:~$ do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release = Welcome to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute Raccoon' = The Ubuntu team is proud to announce Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute Raccoon'. We’ve cut this to the first few lines – there are some 60 lines of it in full. As we reported when it came out, there are worthwhile novelties in RR. For instance, in our testing on some machines with older Nvidia GPUs which did not work well with 24.04, the now Wayland-only GNOME 50 drove our geriatric video cards just fine. If you use any other desktop, from Cinnamon to Unity, you still get X11. ®

source https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/30/canonical-begins-pushing-resolute-raccoon/5300225