Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa could introduce all these changes

Right after a new version of Ubuntu is released, Canonical usually announces and starts work on the next one. They have six months to design, discuss and introduce all the news. Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa It entered development at the end of October and some details that it would include were already known, such as full support for ZFS, but little by little more details are known that could reach the final version.

In this article we are going to put a list of these novelties (Via Phoronix). We are talking all the time in conditional because we are in December, Focal Fossa will arrive in April and in these four months of development that remain, they can decide to go back with any of the news from the following list. In any case, all the points that we will provide below are being debated at the time of writing this article at Ubuntu Trello Desktop.

List of possible Ubuntu 20.04 features

• An attempt will be made to complete the transition from Python 2 to Python 3.
• GNOME performance will continue to improve on Ubuntu (and here I have to remember that I am happy on Kubuntu not to jump back to the main flavor).
• Improved Ubuntu fingerprint drivers and support.
• USBGuard may be introduced to enhance USB security against malicious devices through whitelists / blacklists.
• The Feral GameMode will be added to the Ubuntu archive to help gamers who want to optimize their system performance for games.
• Ubuntu Ubiquity installer enhancement for those who want to perform desktop installations on RAID arrays.
• Updates around Ubuntu LivePatch support / experience.
• Support for ZFS / Zsys will continue to be improved.
• NVENC support could be re-enabled in Ubuntu's FFmpeg binaries, which is to provide modern NVIDIA GPU-based video encoding.
• It is not yet clear whether Ubuntu will enable flickerless boot, which would improve booting under UEFI.
  

Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa will be officially released on April 23th 2020. It will be one LTS version supported for 5 years.