Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) released

Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole”, is here. This release continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open-source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, partnering with the community and our partners, to introduce new features and fix bugs.

Ubuntu 24.10 features the latest Linux 6.11 kernel for improved performance and hardware support, marking a shift to a more aggressive kernel version selection policy going forward.

Building on our previous LTS efforts around performance engineering, Ubuntu 24.10 now includes kdump-tools on relevant platforms for automatic kernel crashdumps. The default desktop installation also includes sysprof for application and workload profiling.

Ubuntu Desktop delivers GNOME 47 with improvements to performance, user experience and enhanced touchscreen support. The power-profiles-daemon improves power management for AMD CPUs and GPUs while libfprint adds support for many new fingerprint reader devices. Ubuntu Desktop now defaults to Wayland on devices with NVIDIA graphics cards and defaults to the NVIDIA 560 open driver version.

Snap management has also been improved on desktop with better update management and messaging in both the dock and the App Center, alongside an experimental new permissions prompting feature which can be enabled in the new Security Center application.

Valkey now replaces Redis in Ubuntu 24.10 with a configuration migration package to support the transition. As always Ubuntu provides updated toolchains for GCC, LLVM, Rust, Golang and .Net alongside TCK certified packages for OpenJDK 21 and 17.

The newest Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu are also being released today. More details can be found for these at their individual release notes under the Official Flavours section:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-release-notes/44878#heading–official-flavours

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 24.10.

To get Ubuntu 24.10

In order to download Ubuntu 24.10, visit:

https://ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will be offered an automatic upgrade to 24.10 if they have selected to be notified of all releases rather than just LTS upgrades. For further information about upgrading, see:

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on the release itself. They are available at:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-release-notes

Find out what’s new in this release with a graphical overview:

https://ubuntu.com/desktop

https://ubuntu.com/desktop/features

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug but aren’t sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:

Help Shape Ubuntu

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at:

https://ubuntu.com/community/contribute

About Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, IoT, cloud, and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional services including support are available from Canonical and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit:

https://ubuntu.com/support

More Information

You can learn more about Ubuntu and about this release on our website listed below:

https://ubuntu.com

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Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Thu Oct 10 16:03:21 UTC 2024 by Łukasz ‘sil2100’ Zemczak, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team.

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 860

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 860 for the week of September 29 – October 5, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu Community Council 2024 elections are open!
  • Oracular Oriole (24.10) Final Freeze
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
  • LXD: Weekly news #365
  • Rocks Public Journal; 2024-10-03
  • Ubuntu Summit 2024
  • LoCo Events
  • The 2024.09.30 SRU Cycle started
  • Event Report – KDE Akademy 2024
  • Other Community News
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Din Mušić
  • Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc)
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 859

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 859 for the week of September 22 – 28, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
  • Rocks Public Journal
  • LXD: Weekly news #364
  • LoCo Events
  • Oracular Oriole (24.10) Release Status Tracking
  • CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc)
  • Din Mušić
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 858

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 858 for the week of September 15 – 21, 2024. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) Beta released
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Hot in Support
  • Ubuntu Meeting Activity Reports
  • Ubuntu Flavor sync meeting notes: 9 September 2024
  • UbuCon Asia 2024 Team meeting 2024-09-15 12:00 UTC
  • Ubuntu Home Server Workshop 2024 @Busan
  • Ubucon Portugal 2024 needs you!
  • LoCo Events
  • Mir release 2.18.0
  • Call for testing: ubuntu-frame, mir-test-tools on the `22` track (Mir 2.17.2 update)
  • Ubuntu Desktop’s 24.10 Dev Cycle – Part 6: September Update
  • Other Community News
  • Canonical News
  • In the Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Meeting Reports
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, and 24.04
  • And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Krytarik Raido
  • Bashing-om
  • Chris Guiver
  • Wild Man
  • dinmusic
  • Yeonguk Choo
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

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Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) Beta released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products.

Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole”, continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

This Beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, but also the Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu flavours.

The Beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper image build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 24.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 10th, 2024.

Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Cloud Images:

Oracular Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of packages, including a current 6.11 kernel, and much more.

To upgrade to Ubuntu 24.10 Beta from Ubuntu 24.04, follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OracularUpgrades

The Ubuntu 24.10 Beta images can be downloaded at:

https://releases.ubuntu.com/24.10/ (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server on x86)

This Ubuntu Server image features the next generation Subiquity server installer, bringing the comfortable live session and speedy install of the Ubuntu Desktop to server users.

Additional images can be found at the following links:

https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/oracular/current/ (Cloud Images)
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/24.10/beta/ (Non-x86)

As fixes will be included in new images between now and release, any daily cloud image from today or later (i.e. a serial of 20240919 or higher) should be considered a Beta image. Bugs found should be filed against the appropriate packages or, failing that, the cloud-images project in Launchpad.

The full release notes for Ubuntu 24.10 Beta can be found at:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/oracular-oriole-release-notes/44878

Edubuntu:

Edubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu designed as a free education-oriented operating system for children of all ages.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/24.10/beta/

Kubuntu:

Kubuntu is the KDE based flavour of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop and includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/24.10/beta/

Lubuntu:

Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu which uses the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment (LXQt). The project’s goal is to provide a lightweight yet functional Linux distribution based on a rock-solid Ubuntu base.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/24.10/beta/

Ubuntu Budgie:

Ubuntu Budgie is community developed desktop, integrating Budgie Desktop Environment with Ubuntu at its core.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-budgie/releases/24.10/beta/

UbuntuKylin:

UbuntuKylin is a flavor of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/24.10/beta/

Ubuntu Studio:

Ubuntu Studio is a flavor of Ubuntu that provides a full range of multimedia content creation applications for each key workflow: audio, graphics, video, photography and publishing.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/24.10/beta/

Xubuntu:

Xubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that comes with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.

The Beta images can be downloaded at:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/24.10/beta/

Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Unity are still in the process of completing their fixes and testing, and might follow up on Monday.

Regular daily images for Ubuntu, and all flavours, can be found at:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for clients, servers and clouds, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit https://ubuntu.com/support

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at:

https://ubuntu.com/community/participate

Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions really help us to improve this and future releases of Ubuntu. Instructions can be found at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this Beta release on our website, IRC channel and wiki.

To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu’s very low volume announcement list at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Fri Sep 20 22:34:15 UTC 2024 by Utkarsh Gupta on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team.