The official Ubuntu 15.04 flavors are available for download. Let's take a quick look at what's new in the latest 15.04 release of Xubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Kubuntu and Lubuntu.

Ubuntu MATE 15.04 was released today, this being the first version as an official member of the Ubuntu family. Compared to the previous releases, when the distro was an unofficial flavor, there are numerous changes, including new default applications, a built-in panel layout switcher, new default theme and much more.

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) was released today and it brings updated applications, various small Unity improvements including an option to always show the menus, along with numerous bug fixes.

Under the hood, the most important change is the replacement of upstart with systemd as the default init system.

Let's take a look at what's new in Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop!

Also see what's new in: Ubuntu MATE 15.04 and the other Ubuntu flavors.

The default Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet wallpaper was revealed a few minutes ago. The wallpaper continues to use the polygon style introduced with the Ubuntu 14.04 default wallpaper, but without the orange. In fact, the new default wallpaper is mostly purple, as you can see below:

The winners of the Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet Community Wallpaper Contest were revealed yesterday. The new wallpapers didn't land in Vivid yet, but you can already download them via Launchpad.