Last week to be exact on February 21st, the developers in charge of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo made the announcement according to the calendar of activities in which They have entered the freeze state of system functions.
With which all those new changes introduced will be those that have already begun to work to polish all those details that compromise the stability of the system which means that no new features will be added to the next version until the release of its final version.
As part of the monitoring of the development of this new version of the system has been carried out. The calendar is being carried out according to the following dates:
- 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
With that Canonical calls on all package developers and maintainers from Ubuntu to focus their efforts on fixing bugs rather than adding new features to Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo series.
"According to the release schedule, Disco Dingo is now on Feature Freeze," Adam Conrad said in a mailing list announcement Thursday. »
Ideally, everyone should now focus on bug fixes and not adding new features at launch.
Remember that version strings are not important for function freezing. If you load a new upstream release and it doesn't have any new features you don't need an exception. ”
What features and functions will arrive in Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo?
Since at this time all the features that were thought and added to what will be this new version of the system have already gone to a frozen state.
We know that Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo will bring us with it version 3.32 of the GNOME desktop environment which will be released in a matter of weeks (according to the Gnome development schedule).
With which it has to be added to the daily images before March 14, the date on which the user interface freeze enters.
Another novelty that is expected for this launch will be Linux Kernel 5.0, although this is highly dependent on the Linux kernel development team.
Even that given the things since currently Kernel 5.0 is in your RC8, the safest thing is that it is so.
On the other hand, for some time they had been talking about himAndroid integration using GSConnect, a native JavaScript implementation of the KDE Connect protocol.
Which was expected since Ubuntu 18.10 and that In this new version of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo will not arrive either. (Or at least that's what is known so far).
Another important point that had been made known is that the developers were working on facilitating the installation of private graphics drivers from Nvidia, (from AMD or Intel is not known about it).
As well various performance patches are expected to be applied to speed up the entire desktop given that last year Canonical and the Gnome development team did not do well at all in terms of resource optimization.
And sincerely many of the users of the system (I include myself) hope and ask in the most attentive way to have a version of the system that is friendly with the resources of the team.
Finally Ubuntu developers are expected to add a hidden option for experimental support for HiDPI screen scaling.
Y without forgetting that many users are also waiting for the art of what will be the new mascot of this next release of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo which if everything goes well and there is no delay or a problem arises with the management of system resources (it is already becoming something classic) we will have among us Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo April 18, 2019.
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