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Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Released

by | Thu 28 Apr 2011

Today we released Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, and you can [find out more about it](https://www.ubuntu.com/) and [download it here](https://www.ubuntu.com/download).

This has been a ferociously busy cycle and with it we set out with significant, audacious goals. We shipped a new shell, a new media player, significant improvements to [Ubuntu One](https://one.ubuntu.com/), and we worked hard to deliver all this change and opportunity in a predictable, stable and slick product. I am really proud of the result.

In this release we had over 320 developers contribute to it from both Canonical and the community, a new community of 17 new Unity contributors form, hundreds of translators translate Natty into 43 languages, countless LoCo teams get together for different global events and many other contributions made to documentation, testing, art, design, and more.

In short, out community came together and really delivered.

*Thankyou*.

Thankyou to everyone who shared their insights and skills to help make Ubuntu better for everyone. It is you all who are helping us to bring Free Software to the world, and I can’t think of a better family to be on this train with.

And now, we celebrate!

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