What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 24.04
Today is launch day for Ubuntu 24.04, Noble Numbat. Congratulations to our friends at Canonical. I’d say it’s an auspicious day, but it is more noble than that! In fact, it is the first time that a .NET release is available from day one in the official Ubuntu feeds. There is no need to wait, you can start using .NET with Ubuntu 24.04 now.
You may remember that .NET 6 was added to Ubuntu 22.04, a few months after the Ubuntu 22.04 release. We’ve learned a lot since then and significantly grown the partnership between Canonical and Microsoft. Starting with Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu feeds will be the official source of packages for .NET.
Ubuntu 24.04 container images are already available, for .NET 8+. They include noble, noble-chiseled, and noble-chiseled-extra image flavors.
Ubuntu LTS releases are always quite popular. We’re excited that .NET is part of Ubuntu 24.04 and expect a lot of .NET developers will start using these new packages and container images in the coming weeks and months.
