Questions tagged [release-management]
Questions about the release procedures for a release, including policies, stable release updates, and distribution upgrades.
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How does unattended-upgrades handle new releases?
If I've installed unattended-upgrades what will happen when a new release comes out? Will I keep getting new packages for my installed release, or will my system upgrade to the new release?
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Where is 16.04.4 LTS?
While I was just reading through the Xenial Xerus Release Schedule, I saw the next point release, being 16.04.4 LTS on February 15th, 2018. I was waiting 4 days for it.
On the release date, I ...
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What can I do to get my package from Debian unstable to next Ubuntu LTS?
My package was just accepted into Debian unstable.
There is about 20 days till the feature freeze of next Ubuntu LTS and I'd like to get my package in. Will it get pulled in automatically? Is there ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 Yakketty won't update. Can I fix it, or should I get 16.04, or 17.10? [duplicate]
So I had a beautiful system running real nice up until I wanted to set up an old webcam last night. I did sudo apt-get update and got this:
Fetched 1,475 B in 3min 25s (7 B/s)
Reading package lists......
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Are there unattended-upgrades security upgrades when LTS is over? [duplicate]
Are there security upgrades when LTS is over, at least form unattended-upgrades?
That is, if I installed some Ubuntu and we reached some year and my LTS is over but I have an Ubuntu-Nginx server ...
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Creating ppa for other ubuntu releases
I have ppa for the ubuntu 17.10 artful release. Now i want my ppa to work in ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 release so do i have to create seperate ppa for other releases or there is any way to install my ...
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Why does Kubuntu and Xubuntu 16.04 LTS support end sooner than the official Ubuntu EOL date?
I was searching info for 16.04.3 LTS (for Kubuntu & Xubuntu). It was great to find out about the cool features of those Ubuntu distributions.
However, I found something unusual; the EOL date of ...
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Which branch am I on?
After doing a do-release-upgrade -d about a month ago, I switched, as intended, to the development branch (-d) of Ubuntu 17.10. Now, after its final release, I would like to confirm that I am back to ...
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Will ubuntu-server have alpha/beta releases for 17.10?
I am working on enabling Ubuntu 17.10 on a server. In order to do so I want to download ubuntu-server image for alpha2 but it is not present on
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/
I have seen ...
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Are LTS codenames specifically intended to imply reliability?
Looking at the list of codenames, it seems that the LTS codenames imply or suggest reliability, polish or ease-of-use, while the non-LTS codenames suggest traits other than reliability, such as ...
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How frequently is Ubuntu Gnome ISO updated? (Non LTS)
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How frequently does the Ubuntu Gnome ISO get updated to include the latest available security patches and other bug fixes? And how can I find out that the ISO has been updated? Or does it ...
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Which is the best way to do a phased release package updates?
I work on a company with multiple environments: dev, test, prod.
We currently have a way to test the updates posted on the Ubuntu Repositories but is really complex and doesn't work properly.
So we ...
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Roll back Ubuntu 16.04 to 14.04 [duplicate]
Is it possible to downgrade my Ubuntu 16.04 installation to 14.04?
I have recently upgraded my Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04, but it is not compatible with my laptop. Most often I have to face ...
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Will Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus have LTS? [duplicate]
I've read over the information I can find on 17.04 Zesty Zapus
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes
The only information I can go off of for official support:
"Ubuntu 17.04 will be ...
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What are the meaning of Ubuntu code-names? [duplicate]
Do they have some special meaning related to the release version or they are just random names to sound cool?
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Resolving Ubuntu release version to release code name
I very frequently forget release name corresponding to my Ubuntu version. Is there an easy method (preferably command-line one) to go from say
11.10 -> Distro Name
I know we have
lsb_release -...
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Acquiring pre-releases/betas for unreleased distros for testing [duplicate]
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Is there any way for the general public to get access to Ubuntu pre-release/beta ISOs or tarballs for testing?
Background
I currently help maintain a Linux product, and the bulk of our ...
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How do I know when Yakkety becomes available, from the repository?
According to the wiki, Yakkety is scheduled for it's final release on 2016-10-13.
However, the repository is already there. I guess that this is a beta release.
How do I know when it is final, ...
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man snapcraft gives nothing
Is there no manual page for the 'snapcraft' command or is my installation broken?
I'd sure like to read more about 'snapcraft release [myproject] 1 candidate'. Once I release a candidate, how do I ...
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Command line utility displaying support information for packages and release?
Ubuntu has a command line utility that displays support date stats for a given installation, with at least summary information on packages that are or are not supported and the dates concerned. It is ...
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What is Ubuntu 16.05, 16.06, etc
What is the Ubuntu 16.03, 16.05, 15.11, etc? I was typing Ubuntu 16.04 and accidentally typed 16.03. I saw things like Ubuntu 16.03, 16.05, 16.01 on launchpad. They were milestones relating to the ...
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What version of Ubuntu comes after 'Z'? [duplicate]
I know that the Ubuntu names follow alphabetical order. Example: 12.04 was precise pangolin; 14.04 was trusty tahr; 16.04 is xenial xerus; 16.10 is yakkety yak. My question is, what's coming after ...
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Will upgrading Ubuntu remove installed software?
I am planning to upgrade Ubuntu 15.10 to 16.04 and I was wondering if it will erase the installed software e.g., openCV, Unity Tweak Tool etc.
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How to programmatically query latest version/release of Ubuntu?
I'm using a script to build an unattended install ISO for some servers. A few weeks ago, Ubuntu incremented 14.04.3 to 14.04.4. The script I am using has the version number hard-coded into the script, ...
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How to remove kernels from previous release
See question How to remove kernels from previous release? which is marked as duplicate. I ask this again, because the question is special case and not handled in the answers for the related question. ...
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Can't upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04
I am running into some trouble with this upgrade, I ran a "do-release-upgrade" and I guess that I wasn't paying attention and the system went from ubuntu 14.04 to 15.10 instead of 14.04 to 16.04. ...
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Why doesn't the latest Ubuntu edition come with the latest stable Linux kernel version?
I have recently noticed that the latest version of Ubuntu does not come with the latest stable Linux kernel version.
For example, Kubuntu 16.04 LTS comes with Kernel 4.4.0-21-generic while the latest ...
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Why did Canonical drop support for Gimp and how to recover from it?
I was offered an upgrade to 16.04. During the upgrade, I saw this:
I can kinda see why Expect and w3m are being dropped, but why Gimp?
More importantly, how to do I find pre-built packages that I ...
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What are some interesting features of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? [closed]
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has just been released and we are very eager to enjoy it.
From its features, I have noticed headphone and some other driver support in Mac, new music and video interface, themes etc.
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Ubuntu latest LTS is now released, why can't I upgrade from previous LTS? And how can I force the upgrade? [duplicate]
Ubuntu Server 16.04 is now released.
I have Ubuntu (server) 14.04.4 LTS, but when I try to do a do-release-upgrade it tells me that there are no upgrades available.
Why?
How can I upgrade my ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus - change from release to stable channel
Last week I installed a desktop and thought I should install Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus right away. That would prevent a later upgrade. As I understand in these last weeks nothing really changes, it's ...
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How does Ubuntu manage so many daily images?
From these pages, https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/daily/ and http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/beta-2/, Ubuntu provides daily images for different releases (14.04 to 16.04), ...
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Do I have an unstable Debian 8 distribution?
I have Ubuntu 15.10.
I wanted to find out its Debian version, so I ran:
cat /etc/debian_version
and got jessie/sid.
I think "jessie" implies Debian 8 but I'm not sure what "sid" means. Googling it ...
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No more updates for Google Chrome 32-bit
I am using Google Chrome 48.0 32-bit. Today when I launched Google Chrome, I got this message:
This computer will soon stop receiving Google Chrome updates because
this Linux system will no longer ...
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Why do I get contradicting Ubuntu versions?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.*
I'd like to know what point release of 12.04 I'm running (the star). I read the information about LTSEnablementStack and it seems 12.04 has point releases 12.04.0, 12.04.1, ...
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How to browse package versions for a particular Ubuntu LTS point release
I want to determine which version of a particular package is included in a particular LTS point release.
E.g. I know from here that package openssl was at package version 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2 when 14.04 ...
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When does an active Ubuntu version expire?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
The EOL date for Trusty Tahr (14.04) is blank. When is End Of Life?
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Can I smoothly upgrade from one LTS to next LTS release?
Question is about Ubuntu release process. Are migrations from n to n+1 releases expected?
Assuming we have server with installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Will it be smoothly upgradable to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ...
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What does the new logo of Ubuntu GNOME mean?
The new release of Ubuntu GNOME brings a new logo. What does this logo mean? And what is the mainly reason for changing it?
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How distribution nomenclature is done? [duplicate]
How does Ubuntu distribution nomenclature is done? For example why does 14.04 Ubuntu is given the name "Trusty Thar"? Likewise what are the motivation for such nomenclatures for all the released ...
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If I upgrade my system will my desktop manager change to Unity?
I have an old Acer netbook which is running Lubuntu 14.10. I haven't used it in a while and after booting in it is prompting me to upgrade to Ubuntu 15.04.
If I go ahead with the update will it ...
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Daily Ubuntu base update
I am getting Ubuntu base update almost every day. This seems strange to me. What am I missing?
(I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
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Where is the package list? [duplicate]
I would like to know what version of glibc will be used in later releases. Is that information available?
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Backporting a package from an unreleased release?
If I attempt to backport a package using a command similar to the following:
backportpackage -s xenial -d vivid ...
I end up with an error:
backportpackage: Error: Unknown release codename xenial
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Is it possible to upgrade from a Beta Release to a Final Release? [duplicate]
If I install a new beta release now (e.g. 15.10 beta-2), one week before the Final Release of this version, will I be able to update/upgrade it regularly to the Final Release version when it comes out ...
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Which Ubuntu version is better? LTS or recently released version? [closed]
Which Ubuntu version is better? LTS version or recently released version?
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How to trace the origin of how updates make it into my Ubuntu machine?
How do I find the full "community history" of how the updates listed by "software updater" made it into my Ubuntu machine?
The question is for the general workflow to obtain the "community history" ...
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How does Ubuntu LTS work?
With the 14.04.3 out are the prior releases of 14.04 (14.04.1, 14.04.2) fully supported or Canonical expect users to upgrade to 14.04.3 as soon as possible ?
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What, exactly is 'fixed' in a Fixed Release Distro
If I use a fixed release distribution (Ubuntu/Mint) as opposed to a rolling release distro, exactly what is not updated, what is 'fixed' in place? I update the kernel whenever a new version becomes ...
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Trouble specifying the release from apt
I'm running a system based on Ubuntu Trusty. I added the source entries for Vivid (not binary)
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu vivid main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://...