25.04 Testing- are you brave enough?

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This topic is intended to capture early testing of 25.04 (Plucky Puffin).

The desktop ISO for 25.04 can be found here

25.04 Schedule

If you have spare hardware (or a virtual machine or two) and don’t mind regularly reinstalling when (and I mean WHEN) 25.04 eats your installation then feel free to give your feedback here. Early testing will improve the final release

Please use http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/ for testing ISOs (just click the relevant links and there’s guides as you navigate the site)

Packages and hardware are meant to be tested also using QA trackers: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/Tester

As the above page shows, probably the best way to get stuck in with testing is run Ubuntu 25.04 (either download or upgrade from 24.10 with update-manager -d ) as often as possible for usual tasks (bearing in mind that one’s productivity and data may be hampered by bugs on 25.04!) and reporting bugs with ubuntu-bug and ubuntu-bug package-name as you go.

Alternatively, there is always a huge backlog of bugs that need to be triaged (i.e., progressed towards being fixed), head to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad for a guide on getting started with that!

Use this query to see if your testing issue has been highlighted by others first before reporting.

This first post will be updated with the latest important info - so you don’t need to trawl through the posts. Remember - everything listed below is subject to change/removal and should not be used as indicative with the beta & later release.

draft release notes TBD.

Applets and mini-apps

For Ubuntu Budgie applets these can be tested via our daily PPA for 24.10:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie-dev/budgie-extras-daily && sudo apt upgrade

Budgie Desktop

  1. Our focus in this schedule is the Wayland version of Budgie-Desktop. This will be offered initially either via a PPA or as part of the stable release. This decision has yet to be made.

Other Improvements and Bug Fixes

Bug Fixes

Other Improvements

  1. We have decided to drop thunderbird from our default install. With most users now using web based email, we trust our community to choose the best client if they require a dedicated email app.

Raspberry Pi

Themes

Budgie Welcome

Our welcome app is automatically updated for all 24.04, 24.10 & 25.04 users

  1. Our french support has been thoroughly reviewed and updated by community member @jlb … may thanks
  2. Locale fixes have been rolled out to default correctly to the base locale (if available) rather than defaulting to english.
  3. Please help with translations

Additional

Areas to look out for

The Ubuntu release notes are to be found here

Packaging Updates

Whilst not immediately obvious, various packages need to be updated for a number of reasons, so this section lists what updates have been made and this needs extra testing to confirm no regressions:

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Getting prepared,one broken package the entire 24.10 cycle left me with little to report. :grinning:

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Still the same nasty problem as in UB 24.04, the home directory folders are not (all) translated if you choose French (FR) during installation:

UB25.04
UB25.04940×585 356 KB

However, Elementary OS 8, which also uses Ubuntu 24.04 and its installer, albeit redesigned, offers to rename these folders right from the live session:

EOS8 #1
EOS8 #1940×618 463 KB

… and it works!

EOS #2
EOS #2940×548 370 KB

Is this not possible on UB?

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It used to-do this. Not sure what the application/process that does this. Would need investigation - suggest look at ps -ef at the time that dialog appears to see what app is running. That should give a hint of where to look next.

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The dialog is probably from this package xdg-user-dirs - does seem to be an awful lot of bug reports Bugs : xdg-user-dirs package : Ubuntu

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On elementary OS when the dialog box appears: ps-ef.txt (23.1 KB)

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K… i would have hoped you could help here to identify the process itseld by comparing between when the dialog appears and when it disappears.

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Sorry, I thought you were much more adept than me at spotting this at first glance… :no_mouth:

I made several attempts to install UB 25.04 to give you what you wanted.
Here’s the result:

  • When the dialogue box appears:
root        8058       1  0 09:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/libexec/language-selector/ls-dbus-backend
root        8134       1  0 09:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/boltd
jean        8214    1995  0 09:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
  • After accepting the directory name change:
root        8058       1  0 09:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/libexec/language-selector/ls-dbus-backend
root        8132       1  0 09:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-localed
root        8134       1  0 09:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/boltd
jean        8214    1995  0 09:25 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only

To get the box to appear, I had to switch from fr-FR to fr-CA, the directory names aren’t quite the same: ‘Récent / Fichiers récents’ (which is actually better).
As always, switching to fr-CA solves the problem.

It’s actually much more complicated than that, it’s even completely random: I even got a perfect installation in French, but only once!

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