Natty Narwhal

Mark Shuttleworth announced the future release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal on 17 August 2010.

released on 28 April 2011. Ubuntu Desktop replaced GNOME Shell as default with the Unity User Interface. The move to Unity was controversial because GNOME developers feel that it will fracture the community and marginalize GNOME Shell.

Banshee is the default music player, replacing Rhythmbox Music Player. The default browser is Mozilla Firefox 4 and LibreOffice, which replaced OpenOffice.org.