The desktop view now properly handles drag and drop interactions, e.g.Wayland is now the default on most configurations, which features better security and performance.Added support for smartcard authentication (via pam_sss).Nftables is now the default backend for the firewall. For more details see this discourse post. Secureboot on x86_64 (amd64) and AArch64 (arm64) have been improved to include SBAT capable shim, grub2, fwupd. Ruby was updated from v2.7.0 to v2.7.2, and rubygems has been extracted from ruby2.7 source and is provided as a separate package. In addition to OpenJDK 11, OpenJDK 16 is now provided (but not used for package builds). Python now ships at version 3.9.4, Perl at version 5.32.1. GCC was updated to the 10.3.0 release, binutils to 2.36.1, and glibc to 2.33. AMD Vangogh, Green Sardine, and Dimgrey Cavefish graphics support.Intel Rocketlake and DG1 graphics support.virtio-fs DAX support to improve performance and reduce memory consumption.io_uring restriction support to facilitate secure sharing of rings to less-trusted processes.Btrfs performance and data recovery improvements.fsync() performance improvements for ext4 and btrfs.
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You can download ISOs and flashable images from: Images can be downloaded from a location near you. If you need Long Term Support, it is recommended you use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS instead. Ubuntu 21.04 will be supported for 9 months until January 2022. He is missed and will live in our hearts forever. The Ubuntu Release Team dedicates 21.04 “Hirsute Hippo” to our colleague and friend infinity. Adam passed away earlier this year after being unwell for some time. As a member of the release team, Adam was responsible for devising many of the processes and tools which we use today, and (whether he wanted to or not) teaching his fellow members the ropes. Adam, known in the community as infinity, was a long-term member of the release team and colleague to many of us at Canonical. Subscribers to the ubuntu-announce mailing list and long term participants in the Ubuntu community will have come across Adam Conrad’s work.
These release notes for Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu and its flavours.