Ninth LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu, code-named "Jammy Jellyfish". It was released in April 21, 2022. Ubuntu 22.04 will reach End of Standard Support (ESS) in April 2027. Only use this tag for version-specific questions.
Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) was released on April 21, 2022 and is supported until April 2027.
Release notes: Jammy Jellyfish
The ninth stable and Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu. Canonical will provide support for five years due to popularity of LTS usage in businesses:
- Two years of support will include hardware updates
- Remaining three years will consist of maintenance upgrades.
Notable new features:
- Linux kernel 5.15
- GNOME 41/42, including:
- PulseAudio 16.0
- BlueZ 5.63
- CUPS 2.4
- NetworkManager 1.36
- ZFS 2.1.2 which enables:
- Native Encryption
- Persistent L2ARC
- Zstd compression algorithm
- Redacted replication
- OpenSSL 3.0:
- Disables a lot of legacy algorithms (including SHA1 and MD5 hashing) by default
- 3rd-party packages that depend on libssl1.1 will need to be rebuilt to instead depend on libssl3 (as the older ABI isn’t provided anymore)
Flavors and editions:
Ubuntu Flavors available under 22.04 LTS (questions on all are allowed):
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS variants are not commercially supported by Canonical.
Ubuntu Editions available under 22.04 LTS (questions on all are allowed):
Ubuntu releases:
