Upgrades from 22.04 LTS also enabled!

The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the first service release of Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS, 24.04.1. This also marks the opening of upgrades from Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS.

If you are running Ubuntu Studio 22.04, you should be receiving an upgrade notification in a matter of days upon login.

Notable Bugs Fixed Specific to Ubuntu Studio:

• Fixed an issue where PipeWire could not send long SysEx messages bridging to some MIDI controllers .
• DisplayCal would not launch as it required an older version of Python than Python 3.12 that was released with Ubuntu 24.04. This was fixed.
• The new installer doesn’t configure users to be part of the audio group by default. However, upon first login, the user that just logged-in is automatically configured, but this requires the system to be completely restarted to take effect. The fix to make this seamless is in progress.

Other bugfixes are in progress and/or fixed and can be found in the Ubuntu release notes or the Kubuntu release notes for the desktop environment.

How to get Ubuntu Studio 24.04.1 LTS

Ubuntu Studio 24.04.1 LTS can be found on our download page.

Upgrading to Ubuntu Studio 24.04.1 LTS

If you are running Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS, you arleady have it.

If you are running Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS, wait for a notification in your system tray. Otherwise, see the instructions in the release notes.

Contributing and Donating

Right now we mostly need financial contributions and donations. As stated before, our project leader’s family is in a time of lead with his wife losing her job unexpectedly. We would like to keep the project running and be able to give above and beyond to help them.

Therefore, if you find Ubuntu Studio useful and can find it in your heart to give what you think it’s worth and then some, please do give.

Ways to donate can be found in the sidebar as well as at ubuntustudio.org/contribute.