A long time ago I read a comment from a user or developer that Canonical should stop releasing a version every six months and focus on LTS. They come out every two years, and everything they add is more than proven. While it is true that the Long Term Support are the important ones, I think that the normal cycle ones, the ones that are released every six months, are fundamental pieces so that everything goes as expected, and the next version will be Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu.
Kinetic Kudu will be a natural "short" evolution. The good thing about these versions is that they test what should be perfect for the next LTS, like go from PulseAudio to PipeWire. In addition, it is expected that Wayland will finally be activated by default on computers with NVIDIA cards, since the hardware company has already released the first open source version. Another small change will affect the wireless networks, as it will switch from using WPA to IWD.
Ubuntu 22.10 will use the IWD maintained by Intel
But make no mistake. Not that they're going to touch anything that affects WPA connections, or at least for the worse. What will happen is that they will stop using WPA_Supplicant to use the IWD daemon, which is the iNet Wireless Daemon maintained by Intel and is designed to improve efficiency and add more modern features than the current WPA_Supplicant. Additionally, IWD can be integrated with NetworkManager, systemd.networkd and other Intel software, the ConnMan.
Canonical developers have been tinkering with this step for a couple of years now, and it will finally happen when Ubuntu 22.10 is officially released. In fact, it is expected to arrive earlier, but to the development version, also known as Daily Build.
In addition to this, and the aforementioned change to PipeWire and the more than likely Wayland by default on computers with NVIDIA graphics, Ubuntu 22.10 will arrive with GNOME 43 and an important leap in the kernel, since Impish Indri stayed at 5.15 and by next October Linux 5.20 or Linux 6.0 will be available, whatever Linus Torvalds decides. Until then, enjoy the jam jellyfish, which works very well.