17.04 Released!

e are pleased to announce the release of the next version of our distro - and the first as an official flavor of the Ubuntu family. Based on 16.04 and 16.10 budgie-remix experiences, feedback and suggestions we have received from our users, the new release comes with a lot of new features, fixes and optimizations:

• Focused heavily on stability
• More customisation options via budgie welcome
• • Complete desktop look and feel change - Material Designs of Adapta or Vimix
• • Startup wizard on first logon taking new users through the first logon procedures
• • Browser ballot - we believe you should decide what your favorite browser should be
• • Overhaul of our delivered application set - the best from the GNOME family as well as the fantastic Terminix terminal emulator
• Latest upstream Budgie desktop v10.2.9

You can and should read more about what we have been upto via our release notes . Download links  and installation guide are provided. As always - do check the md5sum hash value of the downloaded ISO - this really does help you get on with a flying start for your install. Thank you all for your continued support! David, Ubuntu Budgie Project Leader.