The newest monthly snapshot of [1]Ubuntu 25.10 is now available for testing and is the final planned monthly snapshot prior to the October release of the Questing Quokka.

Utkarsh Gupta of Canonical announced today the Questing Snapshot 4 release. Back in May was the Canonical announcement of [2]monthly Ubuntu snapshot releases to complement their daily ISOs and for help in facilitating monthly testing as well as further building out their release automation. This is now their fourth snapshot release and the last before Ubuntu 25.10's official debut with the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta release coming in September.

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The brief release announcement of this fourth Ubuntu 25.10 snapshot via [4]the mailing list announcement .

This snapshot represents the current development state of Ubuntu 25.10 that is [5]now in its feature freeze period . Ubuntu 25.10 features the GNOME 49 desktop with Wayland, GCC 15.2, and a wealth of other package updates and changes ahead of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS coming up in April.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Ubuntu+25.10

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Monthly-Ubuntu-Snapshots

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=ubuntu_2510_snapshot4_lrg

[4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2025-August/043431.html

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Feature-Freeze