Ubuntu 26.10 flavours ship with Linux 7.3 and Mesa 26.2

Ubuntu 26.10 arrives with community flavours sharing Linux 7.3 and Mesa 26.2. Xubuntu ships Xfce 4.20, Kubuntu gets Plasma 6.7, and Ubuntu MATE returns under new maintainers after skipping 26.04 LTS.

• All flavours share Linux 7.3 kernel and Mesa 26.2 drivers
• Xubuntu 26.10 ships with Xfce 4.20 and GIMP 3.2.6
• Kubuntu 26.10 includes Plasma 6.7, not the new 6.8
• Ubuntu MATE returns after skipping the 26.04 LTS release