Category Archives: Release

Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Final Beta released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of the Ubuntu 17.10 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products. Codenamed “Artful Aardvark”, 17.10 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 […]

Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support. Like previous LTS series’, 16.04.3 includes hardware enablement stacks for use on newer hardware. This support is offered on all architectures except for […]

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) End of Life reached on July 20 2017

This is a follow-up to the End of Life warning sent earlier this month to confirm that as of today (July 20, 2017), Ubuntu 16.10 is no longer supported. No more package updates will be accepted to 16.10, and it will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks. The original End of Life warning […]

Artful Aardvark Alpha 1 Released

"Ten billion ants in this world, and I’m having trouble with just one." – Aardvark from The Ant and the Aardvark The first alpha of the Artful Aardvark (to become 17.10) has now been released! This milestone features images for Lubuntu, Kubuntu, and Ubuntu Kylin. Pre-releases of the Artful Aardvark are not encouraged for anyone […]

Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) End of Life reached on April 28, 2017

This is a follow-up to the End of Life warning sent last month to confirm that as of today (April 28, 2017), Ubuntu 12.04 is no longer generally supported. No more package updates will be accepted to the 12.04 primary archive, and it will be copied for archival to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks. However, […]