Category Archives: Planet

Xenial 16.04.4 Call For Testing (All Flavours)

By guiverc | Published: 2018-02-24

Some time ago our first release candidate builds for all flavours that released with xenial have been posted to the ISO tracker [1] into the 16.04.4 milestone. As with each point-release, we would need volunteers to grab the ISOs of their flavour/flavours of choice and perform general testing. We obviously are mostly looking for regressions […]

Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) reached End of Life on January 13, 2018

By guiverc | Published: 2018-01-17

Ubuntu announced its 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) release almost 9 months ago, on April 13, 2017. As a non-LTS release, 17.04 has a 9-month support cycle and, as such, will reach end of life on Saturday, January 13th. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 17.04. The […]

Please get to testing Artful RCs (20171015)

By guiverc | Published: 2017-10-15

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, has spun up a set of images for everyone with serial 20171015. Those images are *not* final images (ISO volid and base-files are still not set to their final values), intentionally, as we had some hiccups with langpack uploads that are landing just now. That said, we […]

Artful Aardvark (17.10) Final Freeze

By guiverc | Published: 2017-10-13

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team is pleased to announce that artful has entered the Final Freeze period in preparation for the final release of Ubuntu 17.10 next week. The current uploads in the queue will be reviewed and either accepted or rejected as appropriate by pre-freeze standards, but anything from here on should fit […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 520

By tsimonq2 | Published: 2017-10-04

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #520 for the weeks of September 19 – October 2, 2017, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Announcing the new Ubuntu Community Council Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Final Beta released LoCo Events Dustin Kirkland: Results of the Ubuntu Desktop Applications […]