As of today the Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” is now under a feature freeze ahead of the stable release due out in October.
With the beginning of the feature freeze, the Ubuntu development focus shifts primarily to testing and fixing bugs ahead of the anticipated 9 October release date. But feature freeze exceptions can be granted for those developers with late features to land. New point releases of software that don’t introduce new features can also continue to land.
The brief feature freeze announcement for Ubuntu 25.10 can be found on the Ubuntu-devel list.
Ubuntu 25.10 is being powered by the Linux 6.17 kernel, features the GNOME 49 desktop atop Wayland, ups the RISC-V support baseline to the RVA23 profile, finally gets the TPM-backed full disk encryption support all in order, sudo-rs and other Rust-based components, Chrony by default, and Dracut is now being used by default too. Ubuntu 25.10 has many new changes in part for vetting ahead of the next cycle that will be for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
