Iqela lophuhliso lweCanonical lijolise kulwabiwo lwe-Ubuntu desktop lusebenza nzima ukukhutshwa kwexesha elizayo. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, ekhowudiweyo Xenial Xerus, iya kuba neLinux 4.3 kernel emva kokukhutshwa kwayo okuzinzileyo. Kanye njengokuba iLinux 4.2 izisa Ubuntu 15.1o uWily Werewolf ebomini, ngoku elinye inyathelo eliqhubekayo liya kuthathwa ngohlobo oluhlaziyiweyo lwekernel.
Así ibhengezwe nguJoseph Salisbury, Ukuxela lo msitho mtsha kwiqela elihambelanayo lophuhliso. Incwadana yeendaba ikwachaze ukuba isiseko abasisebenzisayo ngoku sikwiLinux 4.2 abasebenzela kuyo Ubuntu 16.04, nangona isithi inguqulelo yeLinux 4.3 ivulelekile kuphuhliso. Inkqubo yoPhuculo lwe-Ubuntu 16.04 LTS sele iqalile kwaye sonke sinethemba lokuba, ngaphandle kokuphuculwa kernel, iya kubandakanya nolunye uphuculo olunomdla ...
Nge-31 kaDisemba, usuku lokugqibela luka-2015 iya kuba lusuku olukhethiweyo ukuba lube nenguqulelo yokuqala yeAlfa yokuphucula Ubuntu 16.04 LTS esinokuyivavanya. Isipho esihle seKrisimesi esenziwe yiCanonical senzela abalandeli be-Ubuntu Kwinyanga kamva, iAlpha 2 izakufika, nge-28 kaJanuwari, 2016. KwiBeta kuyakufuneka silinde kude kube nguFebruwari 25 kunye neBeta yokugqibela ngo-Matshi 24. Ekugqibeleni, ingxelo yokugqibela iya kukhutshwa ngo-Epreli 21, 2016.
Ewe, umhla ufikile, sele sikhona ngoJulayi kwaye kubonakala ngathi i-UBUNTU 16.04 LTS ayikakhululwa.