Category Archives: Release

Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS released

By guiverc | Published: 2020-08-14

The Ubuntu team announces the release of Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop and Server products, and the Ubuntu Kylin flavor. Similar to the 16.04.6 point release, 16.04.7 is a security-targeted release for the purpose of providing updated installation media which protects new installations from the recently discovered GRUB 2 vulnerabilities (USN-4432-1). Detailed […]

Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS released

By guiverc | Published: 2020-08-14

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support. Like previous LTS series, 18.04.5 includes hardware enablement stacks for use on newer hardware. This support is offered on all architectures and is […]

Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS released

By guiverc | Published: 2020-08-06

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support. As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be […]

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) End of Life reached on July 17 2020

By guiverc | Published: 2020-07-17

This is a follow-up to the End of Life warning sent earlier this month to confirm that as of today (July 17, 2020), Ubuntu 19.10 is no longer supported. No more package updates will be accepted to 19.10, and it will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks. The original End of Life warning […]

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) released

By guiverc | Published: 2020-04-23

The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce our eighth long-term support release, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Desktop, Server, Cloud and Core. Codenamed “Focal Fossa”, 20.04 LTS 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 […]