Ubuntu now includes monthly development snapshots from today

Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu Linux, has announced that it will be introducing monthly snapshot development builds in addition to the beta, release candidate, and final release. The company is beginning to use these snapshot releases starting today, May 29. There will be four snapshots in total during the Ubuntu 25.10 development cycle with snapshot 2 arriving on June 10, snapshot 3 arriving July 15, and snapshot 4 arriving on August 19.

The reasons for the change are to do with the underlying release processes that go on behind the scenes. The company said that over the last 20 years, it has developed a release process with various safeguards, but it’s mostly a manual process that requires the input of seasoned Ubuntu veterans.

Canonical has recently put together the Canonical Ubuntu Release Management Team which will work with the Ubuntu Release Team, composed of the veterans, to develop a new process for releasing Ubuntu versions. The snapshot releases are designed to give the new team a better understanding of the existing processes.

The company said that these monthly snapshot releases for Ubuntu are not fully-fledged releases but curated, testable milestones from the development stream. It’s also important to clarify that Ubuntu is not moving to monthly releases or adopting a rolling release model. For the meantime, Canonical is committed to its six-monthly releases with a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years.

For anyone out there who likes to get their hands dirty trying the latest development versions of Ubuntu, these snapshots will give you more stuff to try out. For average Ubuntu users, snapshots allow more people to try out Ubuntu releases during development and this could lead to less buggy Ubuntu public releases if more issues are detected during development.

You can get snapshot 1 now from Canonical.

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