Ubuntu Kylin and Ubuntu 20.04.2 released simultaneously

Canonical today released the Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS point version of the long-term supported Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system family, with a new kernel and graphics stack.

The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) operating system series, released on April 23, 2020, today received its second release point Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, which provides users with the latest installation media containing all software Package updates and security fixes released by Canonical over the past six months.

Compared with the last Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS point version released in August 2020, Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS point version finally upgrades the kernel and graphics stack for better hardware support and better performance gaming experience, because you can play many games using Steam on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Moreover, Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS ships by default with Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) version of the HWE (Hardware Enabled) Linux 5.8 kernel, as well as the Mesa 20.2.6 open source graphics stack (also from Ubuntu 20.10). Previous versions of Focal Fossa shipped with Mesa 20.0.4 and Linux Kernel 5.4 LTS.

Now, given the fact that Linux 5.4 is an LTS (Long Term Support) kernel, and the benefits of long-term upstream support for the next four years (at the time of writing), you might want to stick with it on your existing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installation. The Linux 5.8 HWE kernel of Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS is suitable for newer installations of hardware that Linux Kernel 5.4 LTS does not fully support.

By default, Ubuntu Desktop 20.04.2 LTS comes with GNOME 3.36.8 desktop environment, while Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie and Ubuntu Kylin flavors have KDE Plasma 5.18.5, LXQt 0.14.3 , Xfce 4.14, MATE 1.24, Budgie 10.5.1 and UKUI 2.0.2 desktop environments.

You can download the Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS version of your choice now using the direct download link below. Existing users simply need to install all the latest updates from the repository using the sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade command to always ensure their installation is up to date.

Canonical provides 5-year maintenance updates for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) until April 2025 for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud and Ubuntu Core versions, while the remaining official versions will be supported 3 years. Until April 2023. The next release point will be Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS in six months.

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