Category Archives: Release

Xenial Xerus Beta 1

By lyz | Published: 2016-02-25

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland This Beta […]

Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS released

By lyz | Published: 2016-02-18

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support. We have expanded our hardware enablement offering since 12.04, and with 14.04.4, this point release contains an updated kernel and X stack […]

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) End of Life reached on February 4 2016

By lyz | Published: 2016-02-05

This is a follow-up to the End of Life warning sent last month to confirm that as of today (February 4, 2016), Ubuntu 15.04 is no longer supported. No more package updates will be accepted to 15.04, and it will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks. The original End of Life warning follows, […]

Xenial Xerus 16.04 Alpha 2 now released for select flavors

By lyz | Published: 2016-01-29

"Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example – I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation." – Nazim Hikmet The second alpha of the Xenial Xerus (to become 16.04) has now been released! This alpha features […]

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) reaches End of Life on February 4 2016

By lyz | Published: 2016-01-14

Ubuntu announced its 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) release almost 9 months ago, on April 23, 2015. As a non-LTS release, 15.04 has a 9-month month support cycle and, as such, the support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 15.04 will reach end of life on Thursday, February 4th. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices […]