About Ubuntu 22.10: Current news before its release
From april this year 2022We have frequently commented about “Ubuntu 22.10”, that is, the news and novelties from this development. Being the last 2 related, one on the wallpaper contest, and the other with Ubuntu Unity as new official flavor of this new version.
Also, it's just over a month away (20th October 2022) for the official launch of Ubuntu 22.10 “Kinetic Kudu”, according to him Release schedule. Therefore, today we will address some relevant points that are known so far and some of those that are missing to that date.
And before starting this exploration of the news of the month of September about "Ubuntu 22.10", we recommend exploring some previous related content, at the end:
About Ubuntu 22.10 “Kinetic Kudu”: September 2022
September milestones on Ubuntu 22.10
As mentioned above, during this September 2020, according to your updated release schedule, we can mention the following milestones in its development:
- From the first of September The (optional) weekly tests of Ubuntu 22.10 were started, for a more in-depth and frequent revision of what has been developed up to now.
- Beginning September 15 User Interface Freeze will be activated. The objective of this stage is to allow the documentation writers and translators to work on a fixed objective that does not leave the screenshots or the documentation obsolete.
- After September 22, Documentation String Freeze and Kernel Feature Freeze will be active. All in order to facilitate and speed up the translation of the documentation already completed, and facilitate the final implementation of the definitive Kernel on the next Beta versions of the distro.
- During the September 26, the stage of the freezing of the first Beta version (Beta Freezer) and the freezing of the hardware enablement (Hardware Enablement Freeze) will start. In order to have ready and reduce the possibility of any kind of problems in the final Beta version, coming from applications and devices added and supported.
- And the September 29, the first public Beta of Ubuntu 22.10 must be ready and released, for download and review by all those interested in its development.
While, from the beginning of October until the 20th, the next freezes will end, the translations and supported languages finalized. Then the release of the first RC version (Release candidate) and to end the final release of the stable version.
Features of Ubuntu 22.10 until September
Among the latests Moravia's compositions features so far recorded We can mention the following 3:
- The default audio server will now be PipeWire, instead of PulseAudio.
- It will include the following essential applications: Firefox 104, LibreOffice 7.4, and Thunderbird 102.
- It will include the following essential subsystems: BlueZ 5.65, CUPS 2.4, NetworkManager 1.40, Mesa 22, Pipewire 0.3.56, Poppler 22.08, PulseAudio 16, and xdg-desktop-portal 1.15.
Summary
In summary, soon, in a little over a month we will be receiving the latest good news about "Ubuntu 22.10". Since, the 20th October 2022 we will see come true, these and many other novelties that for months we have been commenting on here, in Ubunlog.
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