Friday, 22 September 2023

Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) Beta released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Ubuntu 23.10
Desktop, Server, and Cloud products.

Ubuntu 23.10, codenamed "Mantic Minotaur", continues Ubuntu's proud
tradition of
integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a
high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work
through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

This Beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop,
Server, and
Cloud products, but also the Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie,
Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and
Xubuntu flavours.

The Beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper image
build or
installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 23.10 that
should
be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release
expected on October 12, 2023.

Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Cloud Images:
  Mantic Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of
  packages, including a current 6.5 kernel, and much more.

  To upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10 Beta from Ubuntu 23.04, follow these
  instructions:

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManticUpgrades

  The Ubuntu 23.10 Beta images can be downloaded at:

  https://releases.ubuntu.com/23.10/ (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server on x86)

  The default Ubuntu Desktop installer is now a Flutter snap backed by
Subiquity.
  The legacy installer is still available in case of issues with the
new installer.

  This Ubuntu Server image features the next generation Subiquity server
  installer, bringing the comfortable live session and speedy install of
  the Ubuntu Desktop to server users.

  Additional images can be found at the following links:

  https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/mantic/current/ (Cloud
Images)
  https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/23.10/beta/ (Non-x86)

  As fixes will be included in new images between now and release, any
  daily cloud image should be considered a Beta image. Bugs found should be
  filed against the appropriate packages or, failing that, the cloud-images
  project in Launchpad.

  The full release notes for Ubuntu 23.10 Beta can be found at:

  https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/mantic-minotaur-release-notes

Edubuntu:
  Edubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu designed as a free education oriented
  operating system for children of all ages.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/23.10/beta/

Kubuntu:
  Kubuntu is the KDE based flavor of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop and
  includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/23.10/beta/

Lubuntu:
  Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu which uses the Lightweight Qt Desktop
  Environment (LXQt). The project's goal is to provide a lightweight yet
  functional Linux distribution based on a rock-solid Ubuntu base.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/23.10/beta/

Ubuntu Budgie:
  Ubuntu Budgie is a community developed desktop, integrating Budgie
Desktop
  Environment with Ubuntu at its core.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-budgie/releases/23.10/beta/

Ubuntu Cinnamon
  Ubuntu Cinnamon is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the Cinnamon desktop
  environment.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntucinnamon/releases/23.10/beta/

Ubuntu Kylin:
  Ubuntu Kylin is a flavor of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese
users.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/23.10/beta/

Ubuntu MATE:
  Ubuntu MATE is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the MATE desktop environment.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/23.10/beta/

Ubuntu Studio:
  Ubuntu Studio is a flavor of Ubuntu that provides a full range of
multimedia
  content creation applications for each key category: audio, graphics,
video,
  photography and publishing.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/23.10/beta/

Ubuntu Unity:
  Ubuntu Unity is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the Unity7 desktop
environment.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-unity/releases/23.10/beta/

Xubuntu:
  Xubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that comes with Xfce, which is a
stable, light
  and a configurable desktop environment.

  The Beta images can be downloaded at:
  https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/23.10/beta/

Regular daily images for Ubuntu, and all flavours, can be found at:
  https://cdimage.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for clients, servers and
clouds,
with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated
selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible
variety of
add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and
hundreds
of other companies around the world. For more information about support,
visit
https://ubuntu.com/support

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways
you can
participate at:
https://ubuntu.com/community/participate

Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions really help us to
improve
this and future releases of Ubuntu. Instructions can be found at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this Beta release on our
website, IRC channel and wiki.

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On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,
Utkarsh Gupta


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Wednesday, 20 September 2023

Re: Migrating to deb822 sources on upgrade to Mantic

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 5:02 PM Brian Murray <brian@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 04:21:49PM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> > add-apt-repository works but ppa-purge does not.
>
> Is there a bug report about that? It is something which we'd want to keep
> track of and target for fixing.

https://launchpad.net/bugs/2036761

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha

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Tuesday, 19 September 2023

PSA: Error Tracker maintenance

Parts of the Ubuntu Error Tracker will be moving to a different cloud
environment and subsequently both the website for browsing crashes
reports and the service which receive crash reports will be down for a
few hours. However, any crash reports which fail to be sent to the
service during the downtime will be resent.

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Re: Migrating to deb822 sources on upgrade to Mantic

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 04:21:49PM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 4:05 PM Julian Andres Klode
> <julian.klode@canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:58:03PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > * add-apt-repository now adds PPAs as deb822 .sources files (Improvements to
> > > PPA management in 23.10)
> >
> > Yes! PPAs and third party sources work fine as deb822 .sources files
>
> add-apt-repository works but ppa-purge does not.

Is there a bug report about that? It is something which we'd want to keep
track of and target for fixing.

Thanks,
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Re: Migrating to deb822 sources on upgrade to Mantic

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 4:05 PM Julian Andres Klode
<julian.klode@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:58:03PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > * add-apt-repository now adds PPAs as deb822 .sources files (Improvements to
> > PPA management in 23.10)
>
> Yes! PPAs and third party sources work fine as deb822 .sources files

add-apt-repository works but ppa-purge does not.

Thank you,
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Re: Migrating to deb822 sources on upgrade to Mantic

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 12:58:03PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 03:25:47PM -0400, Nick Rosbrook wrote:
> > > As a part of the effort to use deb822 sources by default in Ubuntu[1],
> > > on upgrades to Mantic, ubuntu-release-upgrader will migrate
> > > /etc/apt/sources.list to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, and
> > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/foo.list to
> > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/foo.sources. This change has been implemented
> > > and is now in mantic.
>
> > The release goal to have deb822 by default in Mantic has been pushed
> > back, hence ubuntu-release-upgrader will no longer migrate users to
> > deb822.
>
> > The deb822 sources are still usable, and apt will have no problem with
> > them. The most notable blocker right now is that the
> > software-properties UI cannot handle the deb822 format yet[1]. If you
> > have already upgraded to Mantic, and would like to revert to the
> > classic sources.list, you should be able to do so with:
>
> > $ cp /etc/apt/sources.list{.distUpgrade,}
> > $ rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources
>
> Is this entry in the mantic release notes still accurate?
>
> * add-apt-repository now adds PPAs as deb822 .sources files (Improvements to
> PPA management in 23.10)

Yes! PPAs and third party sources work fine as deb822 .sources files, it
is only official Ubuntu sources that we do not have full integration for
yet (the aptsources.distro module doesn't recognize them as such and hence
software-properties doesn't, and they'd be listed as additional
sources).

I still plan to land the deb822 support for ubuntu sources in an SRU,
as they are quite isolated, but the code so far doesn't generate the
cleanest ubuntu.sources and sometimes messes up, so we deferred making
the switch to 24.04.
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Re: Migrating to deb822 sources on upgrade to Mantic

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 03:25:47PM -0400, Nick Rosbrook wrote:
> > As a part of the effort to use deb822 sources by default in Ubuntu[1],
> > on upgrades to Mantic, ubuntu-release-upgrader will migrate
> > /etc/apt/sources.list to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources, and
> > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/foo.list to
> > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/foo.sources. This change has been implemented
> > and is now in mantic.

> The release goal to have deb822 by default in Mantic has been pushed
> back, hence ubuntu-release-upgrader will no longer migrate users to
> deb822.

> The deb822 sources are still usable, and apt will have no problem with
> them. The most notable blocker right now is that the
> software-properties UI cannot handle the deb822 format yet[1]. If you
> have already upgraded to Mantic, and would like to revert to the
> classic sources.list, you should be able to do so with:

> $ cp /etc/apt/sources.list{.distUpgrade,}
> $ rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources

Is this entry in the mantic release notes still accurate?

* add-apt-repository now adds PPAs as deb822 .sources files (Improvements to
PPA management in 23.10)

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