With the official Ubuntu 19.04 system release earlier this week, the daily build ISO image for early users started opening for download yesterday.
Dubbed "Disco Dingo," Ubuntu 19.04 will be released next year on April 18, 2019, and will be supported for nine months, until July 2020.
Calendar for Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo
After Ubuntu 18.10 was released and its development completed the Canonical team started the development cycle of the new Ubuntu 19.04 operating system series initiated by Canonical earlier this week, the daily build ISO images are now available for download for download. the first users.
The schedule that will be following the next Ubuntu release, It will be carried out according to the following dates:
- The Ubuntu 19.04 release date is scheduled for April 18, 2019.
- Feature Freeze: February 21, 2019
- UI Freeze: March 14, 2019
- Ubuntu 19.04 beta release date: March 28, 2019
- Core Freeze: April 1, 2019
- Ubuntu 19.04 release date: April 18, 2019.
As several Ubuntu users will already know, that Ubuntu 19.04 continues the tradition of removing Alpha milestones and sticking to a single Beta release throughout the development cycle.
Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) was the first version of the Linux operating system to officially adopt this new development strategy.
Again, there will be no alpha release during the "Disco Dingo" cycle., but an official beta version of Ubuntu 19.04 will be available to download and test in March.
Of course, these are based on the previous version, Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Sepia), which was released last month on October 18, so don't expect them to have any new features or enhancements, nor do they look different from Ubuntu. 18.10 live images.
Interested users can now go to the Ubuntu website to download. The first daily build ISO image of Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo), but it only supports the 64-bit version and no other flavors version.
What to expect from Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo?
In this upcoming Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo release this is expected to arrive with what will be version 3.32 of the GNOME desktop environment to be released during the first months of the following year.
Another novelty that is expected for this launch will be Linux Kernel 5.0, although this depends largely on the Linux kernel development team and above all that Linus wants to change the numbering.
In any case, at the rate we are going, we would only have reached the Linux Kernel 4.2x.xx.
On the other hand, Also as many of you may know, Ubuntu's xx.10 releases serve merely to collect statistics, errors, and requests they work on for xx.04 releases.
This means that Ubuntu 19.04 features could include support for Android integration using GSConnect, a native JavaScript implementation of the KDE Connect protocol.
Finally, also various performance patches are expected to be applied to speed up the entire desktop Given that Canonical and the Gnome development team have not fared very well this year in terms of resource optimization, as it will continue to work to make the GNOME Shell more useful with touch screen devices.
Download the first daily versions of Ubuntu 19.04.
Without further ado, if you want to try these daily test images of what will be the next release of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo. You can do it right now directly from Canonical servers.
Although at the moment there is only one ISO image available for Ubuntu with support for 64-bit installations, since it seems that the rest of the flavors have not yet published their ISOs.
Finally, it is important to emphasize that very early test images probably have many errors. and unresolved problems, so it is recommended that you do your tests on a virtual machine.