# elementary OS changelog

> A thoughtful, capable Linux distribution focused on design, privacy and an indie app ecosystem.

- Vendor: elementary, Inc.
- Category: Operating Systems
- Official site: https://elementary.io
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elementary-os)
- Harvested from: Blog (https://blog.elementary.io/feed.xml)
- Entries below: 3 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

## Releases

### 8.1.1 — elementary OS 8.1.1 Available Now

- Date: 2026-02-27
- Version: 8.1.1
- Original notes: https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-1-available-now/
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elementary-os/releases/8.1.1

New year, new minor release! elementary OS 8.1.1 is here with another round of bug fixes and the latest Ubuntu LTS Hardware Enablement Kernel. This update addresses a ton of small things you reported…

- **changed** — Update to the latest Ubuntu LTS Hardware Enablement Kernel
- **fixed** — Address multiple reported bugs and small issues

### 8.1 — elementary OS 8.1 Available Now

- Date: 2025-12-22
- Version: 8.1
- Original notes: https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elementary-os/releases/8.1

Today, we’re proud to announce that elementary OS 8.1 is available to download now and shipping on several high-quality computers! With OS 8.1, we’ve focused in on: Following through on OS 8 release g…

### 8.0.2 — elementary OS 8.0.2 Available Now

- Date: 2025-09-22
- Version: 8.0.2
- Original notes: https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-0-2-available-now/
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/elementary-os/releases/8.0.2

It’s been about 6 months since our last minor release and the team has been busy! For all of the details about what’s new since OS 8.0.1, make sure to check out our posts from May until now. In this p…