This week we released Budgie Control Center 2.1.0, added sloppy focus support for the upcoming Budgie 10.10.1, and refreshed our website. Meanwhile, we've begun early exploration with Mir for Budgie 11 and started refinements to the shell's panel logic.
This Chirp details new Budgie Control Center settings and 10-series maintenance, alongside Budgie 11 progress regarding our approach to configuration, architectural foundations, and early bootstrapping.
2025 was a year of significant progress for Budgie Desktop, as we finalized much of our efforts in our Wayland migration, to bring Budgie 10 to a close and enable us to focus our efforts on Budgie 11. Time to dive into our State of the Budgie to recap our efforts in 2025 and the goals for 2026.
Budgie 10.10 is a brand new release series for Budgie Desktop, marking our first release to migrate Budgie from X11 to Wayland. This release series brings to a close just over a decade of Budgie 10 development; we are formally putting Budgie 10 into maintenance mode to focus our efforts on Budgie 11.
2024 was a pivotal year for Budgie Desktop, with our Budgie 10.9 release series and our focus on our move to Wayland. Time to dive into our State of the Budgie to recap our efforts in 2024 and the goals for 2025.
Budgie 10.9.2 is the second minor release of Budgie 10.9 series of our Budgie Desktop environment. This release fixes some bugs related to notifications, workspace applet, TabSwitcher and more.
Budgie 10.9.1 is the first minor release of Budgie 10.9 series of our Budgie Desktop environment. This release squashes some bugs in the TabSwitcher and Workspace applet.
Budgie 10.9 is a brand new release series for Budgie Desktop, introducing a redesigned Bluetooth applet, early porting efforts towards supporting Wayland, and adopting budgie-session for session management.
2023 was an amazing year for Budgie Desktop and our organization. Time to dive into our State of the Budgie to recap our efforts in 2023 and the goals for 2024.
Budgie 10.8.2 is the second minor release in the 10.8 series of our Budgie Desktop environment. This release features some bug fixes around the system tray, notifications, and a small improvement to Budgie Screenshot.
