Dubbed Black Lab NEXT 2015.9 Beta, the release is based on the latest point release of the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system and uses its Linux 3.19 kernel packages. The LibreOffice 5.0 office suite, GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 5, as well as the Tracker, Tracker GUI, and GNOME Documents apps have been included.