If you’ve been itching to do an in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 from 24.10, your patience has paid off — upgrades have been re-enabled.
For those unaware, Ubuntu was forced to halt upgrades to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release a few hours after its release on April 17 after major bugs were reported, affecting users across different Ubuntu flavours were discovered.
Users were left with broken desktops (environments, that is – upgrading didn’t smash motherboards); had third-party packages removed that shouldn’t have been, and users on Qt-based flavours couldn’t upgrade using the GUI tool due to missing dependencies.
Less Plucky, more… Well, something that rhymes with it!
That is why Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades were not working without manually forcing them through the command-line (which, for the reasons listed above, wasn’t a smart idea).
Not everyone was affected.
My own in-place upgrade on my couch potato laptop (which has few PPAs and third-party sources added) went without issue (the upgrader did stop responding a few times, but I hit ‘wait’ and it sorted itself out after a few minutes).
Yet desktops were breaking for others, and some were hitting serious snafus during their upgrades.
Preventing upgrades to Ubuntu 25.04 was necessary, however frustrating, giving developers time to find the causes, package fixes, re-test, and push software updates out to Ubuntu 24.10 users.
After all, when users’ blood pressure and their critical files are at stake, it’s worth taking the time to get things right, hence a longer-than-hoped delay (leaving users who don’t read sites like mine perplexed at being unable to upgrade to the Plucky Puffin).
Now, nearly a month after the issues were first detected, upgrades are once again possible.
All 4 major bug blockers were marked as “fix released” on Launchpad. The relevant updates begun rolling out last week and, all being well, Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades are now enabled (again).
Assuming no further issues appear, that is!