Canonical Ubuntu Server 24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat) Update Version Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS includes security updates released through Feb 20, 2025, plus installation, upgrade, desktop, server, and hardware enablement fixes. It also refreshes the HWE stack and updated CD images for improved installation reliability.

• Includes all security updates from Ubuntu Security Notices affecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS through Feb 20, 2025.
• Security-relevant platform hardening and fixes in packages such as apparmor, policykit-1, needrestart, openssh, rsync, and containerd-app.

• Fixes installation issues in livecd-rootfs and live-build, including SBOM generation, snap installation, buildd home directory creation, and HWE image support.
• Improves upgrade handling in ubuntu-release-upgrader and update-manager, including obsolete package removal, cross-grade handling, cloud-init quirks, and crash fixes.
• Addresses desktop stability and usability issues in gnome-shell, mutter, gnome-control-center, gnome-initial-setup, nautilus, packagekit, and related components.
• Fixes server and cloud package issues in cloud-init, libvirt, ceph, openssh, sssd, bind9, exim4, and open-vm-tools.
• Updates core platform components such as initramfs-tools, systemd, tzdata, gcc-13, gcc-14, snapd, zfs-linux, and util-linux.
• Resolves multiple kernel and hardware support issues across linux, linux-hwe-6.11, linux-oem-6.11, linux-firmware, fwupd, and NVIDIA driver packages.

• Adds support for new hardware and platforms, including Intel Lunar Lake, Arrow Lake, AMD Strix, Qualcomm WCN7850/WCN7851, and multiple Dell OEM systems.
• Introduces or refreshes upstream releases for several packages, including libreoffice, gnome-control-center, gnome-initial-setup, cloud-init, snapd, apparmor, and ceph.
• Adds Ubuntu 25.04 'Plucky Puffin' to distro-info-data and lintian support.

• Updated CD images are provided for this release.
• This summary covers packages in main and restricted; additional changes exist in universe and multiverse.
• For full package-level details, consult the individual changelogs.
• The release enables the HWE stack for Ubuntu 24.04.2.
• Some upgrade fixes are specifically intended to smooth future upgrades to later Ubuntu releases.

Product Information

Vendor: Canonical

Product: Ubuntu Server

Product type: Software

Application category: Utilities

Platform: Linux

Variant: 24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat)

Version: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

Vendor release date: Feb 20, 2025

Published on updatealert.io: Jul 11, 2026

Description: Server operating system for Linux infrastructure and workloads.