# Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

DevFeed: [Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/intel-linux-npu-driver-only-now-officially-supports-ubuntu-26-04-lts-12410.md>)

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Author: Michael Larabel

Published: 2026-09-12T10:34:25Z

Content type: news

Language: en

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## AI overview

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 officially adds support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The release confirms testing on several Intel processor generations with Ubuntu's default Linux 7.0 kernel, while Ubuntu 24.04 LTS remains supported. No other changes are listed.

## Source excerpt

Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver...