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Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

[Posted October 22, 2015 by jake]

From:  Adam Conrad <adconrad-AT-ubuntu.com>
To:  ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com
Subject:  Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released
Date:  Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:10:21 -0600
Message-ID:  <20151022141021.GL513@0c3.net>
Cc:  ubuntu-release-AT-lists.ubuntu.com

Codenamed "Wily Werewolf", 15.10 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.

Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including
a new 4.2-based kernel, a switch to gcc-5, and much more.

Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of
GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and
stability improvements to Unity.

Ubuntu Server 15.10 includes the Liberty release of OpenStack, alongside
deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when
deploying distributed applications - whether on private clouds, public
clouds, x86, ARM, or POWER servers, or on developer laptops.  Several
key server technologies, from MAAS to juju, have been updated to new
upstream versions with a variety of new features.

The newest Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE,
Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu are also being released today.  More details
can be found for these at their individual release notes:

   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseNotes#Officia...

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours
releasing with 15.10.

To get Ubuntu 15.10
-------------------

In order to download Ubuntu 15.10, visit:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 15.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 15.10 via
update-manager.  For further information about upgrading, see:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free 
of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document
caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes 
on the release itself. They are available at:

   http://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseNotes

Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
   http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features

If you have a question, or if you think you may have found a bug
but aren't sure, you can try asking in any of the following places:

   #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net
   http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
   http://www.ubuntuforums.org
   http://askubuntu.com


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   http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute


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Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 22, 2015 18:04 UTC (Thu) by idupree (guest, #71169) [Link] (2 responses)

How did Ubuntu finish the GCC5/libstdc++6 transition when their upstream Debian is only about 40% done with theirs? I'm curious and envious. Evidence:

Debian status: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/libstdc++6.html and the fact that my Debian Sid box's `aptitude full-upgrade` has said "No solution found within the allotted time. Try harder?" for the last month (trying harder doesn't help), and for a couple months before that, "The following [unreasonable] actions will resolve these dependencies", listing mainly C++-related conflicts. To be fair, I have a lot of packages installed that use C++.

Evidence that Ubuntu transitioned libstdc++ rather than waiting a release like Fedora did: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GCC5

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 22, 2015 18:21 UTC (Thu) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

aptitude's resolver sucks.

The transition seems to have worked out nicely on all my Debian machines.

A combination of:

apt upgrade --with-new-pkgs
apt-get auto-remove

and I think at one point

apt dist-upgrade

seems to have done the trick.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 23, 2015 11:49 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

I think Ubuntu just did a mass rebuild of everything possibly affected from source without waiting for Debian.

Note also that the gcc maintainer for Debian and Ubuntu works for Ubuntu, so I'm sure while he was planning this transition in both, was keenly aware of the deadline for Ubuntu that needed to be met.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 23, 2015 16:02 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (4 responses)

Coincidentally I just recently got a new device -- a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga -- and since Wily was around the corner, installed the beta. I just did a dist-upgrade to the release but there were only a handful of updated packages. Very boring so far, i.e. everything works. I've become accustomed to i3 (tiling wm) over the years, but for this device opted for a customised xfce (xubuntu) with i3 replacing xfwm as the window manager: so far it's the best of both worlds. On gnome apps (like evince), and in chrome, scrolling by dragging on the touchscreen works. Most other stuff works too, including the stylus with pressure sensitivity. Auto-screen-rotate in tablet mode doesn't work -- there are scripts out there to help, but I just set up manual screen-rotate with some panel buttons, good enough for me. Ubuntu gets a lot of grief on sites like LWN from people who think they're leechers, but I'm happy to not have to spend a huge amount of time setting up my new device.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 24, 2015 17:10 UTC (Sat) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (3 responses)

> On gnome apps (like evince), and in chrome, scrolling by dragging on the touchscreen works.

Thank libinput work there (works just fine on Fedora too).

> Most other stuff works too, including the stylus with pressure sensitivity.

Probably also libinput :) .

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 25, 2015 9:23 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (2 responses)

Just wondering, why doesn't firefox benefit then? (There is an extension that does it. But it is annoying to use -- you have to touch a button to enable touch-scrolling, but then normal navigation doesn't work, you have to touch it again to disable it and select text/click on links etc.)

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 25, 2015 14:23 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

Hmm. I'm not sure since not using Firefox on the touchscreen laptop. I have noticed other input-related oddities with Firefox though (namely regarding keyboard focus). File a bug?

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 25, 2015 14:35 UTC (Sun) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Digging around -- known issue. Also this, which is a much less active bug.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 24, 2015 2:28 UTC (Sat) by thisisme (guest, #83315) [Link]

Well done to everyone involved!

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 24, 2015 23:16 UTC (Sat) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Ubuntu releases are becoming more and more boring with time, something I sincerely appreciate.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 25, 2015 19:31 UTC (Sun) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link] (2 responses)

BlueTooth audio still not working (I mean, a simplest headset like Samsung HM1200 connected to a simplest notebook like Acer 1830T with Kubuntu installed)
I can swear that I could hear some quacks in the headset on its first connect to the system (when I tried to control its volume),
but : I can not switch all audio output to this handset, and of course I can not see its speaker&microphone in Skype. However I can hear its warning beeps when it is turning on or connecting/disaonnecting to the host (also I hear that on 'pulseaudio -k').
When, finally, it is going to be fixed ??? Please don't propose me to report bugs to the Launchpad, as from my impressions, Launchpad bugs about non-working Bluetooth audio often go unnoticed for months and years.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 26, 2015 7:01 UTC (Mon) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (1 responses)

But without bugs, how are you going to inform the maintainers that something is wrong? It's almost impossible for them to have the same configuration as you have. And if you didn't obtain Canonical certified hardware, you basically work as QA for Ubuntu. (But good luck for finding any certified bluetooth hw on the list.)
If it any comfort to you, bluetooth bugs in other distributions also languish for months: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257863

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 26, 2015 18:09 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Heck, bluetooth bugs on other platforms languish for months (and years) too. Mac, Windows, Android, and iPhone forums have ton of "wtf bluetooth" traffic too.

Bluetooth just seems to be a nightmare technology.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Posted Oct 25, 2015 19:47 UTC (Sun) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

What is endlessly wondering me, is if anyone is testing operation of simplest Bluetooth audio headsets with any new Ubuntu release ? I heard rumors, that on some earlier releases they actually worked. But since about 14.04 (or probably even earlier), I remember it has always been broken and remained in this state on every next release after that.
I am testing Ubuntu development releases as an enthusiastic amateur (now I have connected to Xenical packages), but hey, people, I stopped reporting any Bluetooth audio issues since I found from Ubuntu wikis/forums that this problem is principally intractable for Ubuntu developers/maintainers for some years since ago. Now I just don't know whom to ask about this problem.


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