Last Thursday, Canonical celebrated the 20th anniversary of its operating system with the launch of the family Oracular Oriole. As life goes on, it already has its sights set on the next version. It will arrive in April 2025, and the first step to begin its development has been taken today. No, they have not released a Daily Build; what they have done is reveal the code name it will use Ubuntu 25.04.
Published In X just a few minutes ago, the official Ubuntu account has revealed that Ubuntu 25.04 will use the codename Plucky Puffin. As for its meaning, what I have been clear about from the beginning has been what animal it is. And there is a browser for mobile devices that, if I remember correctly, was the best option for browsing with Flash on the iPhone, since it was never supported on Apple mobile devices. The animal is a puffin.
Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
To find out what the adjective means, I did have to look it up. First, since it's a word I don't know, I gave DeepL "pucky puffin" — without the L — so it didn't translate the first word for me. Out of habit, I went to ChatGPT and, in one of its hallucinations or successes because it usually corrects when we write wrong, it told me that "pucky" means brave, bold or courageous, which describes something or someone who shows determination in the face of adversity. Later I realized that the correct word is "pLucky", and there DeepL already translated the mascot for me as "brave puffin" or "brave puffin".
If there are no unusual changes, Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin will arrive in April 2025, with GNOME 48, Linux ±6.14 and other new features that we will discover in the next six months. It will also be an interim version supported until January 2026.