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Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) has been released. "Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.8-based kernel, a switch to gcc-6, and much more." The flavors Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu have also been released. Ubuntu 16.10 will be supported for 9 months.

From:  Adam Conrad <adconrad-AT-ubuntu.com>
To:  ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com
Subject:  Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released
Date:  Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:14:49 +0000
Message-ID:  <20161013151449.GZ4433@0c3.net>
Cc:  ubuntu-release-AT-lists.ubuntu.com

Codenamed "Yakkety Yak", Ubuntu 16.10 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 4.8-based kernel, a switch to gcc-6, 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 16.10 includes the Newton 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, z System mainframes, 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/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes#Official_...

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours
releasing with 16.10.

To get Ubuntu 16.10
-------------------

In order to download Ubuntu 16.10, visit:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 16.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 16.10
if they have selected to be notified of all releases, rather than just
LTS upgrades.  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/YakketyYak/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


Help Shape Ubuntu
-----------------

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list
of ways you can participate at:

   http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute


About Ubuntu
------------

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netbooks and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular
releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications
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Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 17:12 UTC (Thu) by Sho (guest, #8956) [Link] (2 responses)

So Unity 8 continues to be a no-show as production desktop environment, despite the claim that adopting Mir instead of Wayland would accelerate progress past Wayland. Meanwhile, Fedora 25 is shipping soon with Gnome on Wayland as default, and KDE-based distros are not too far behind anymore. And Mir would be even less far along without infrastructure created for and by the Wayland community, such as libinput, which it came to rely on.

I'd say history has proven the critics right on this one.

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 8:08 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (1 responses)

Unity 8 has been the production interface on phone and tablet for a while now. Their primary goal is not "replace Xorg", it's "convergence", and it looks like that's happening slowly.

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 15:06 UTC (Fri) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Wayland has been used on lots of smart tvs and similar. For convergence they are using QML. It isn't related to Mir.

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 18:00 UTC (Thu) by gutschke (subscriber, #27910) [Link] (6 responses)

Ubuntu's interim releases, especially this short after an LTS release, are always less compelling as a general purpose OS. But there is one thing where they really shine. It's a great way to pick up newer releases of software packages. And with LXC containers that's easier than ever.

It's pretty straight forward to run the LTS release for maximum stability and great support, but to then run individual apps inside of Yakkety containers.

I had to do that for Asterisk. It is hopelessly broken in Xenial. And it doesn't look as if it can be fixed. Apparently, any attempt at fixing would pull in dependencies that are incompatible with the LTS release policy. Yakkety, on the other hand, pulls in a newer version of Asterisk that fixes these particular problems.

It's never been easier to (almost) seamlessly run mixed Ubuntu releases.

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 18:29 UTC (Thu) by mk (guest, #88510) [Link] (3 responses)

When using Ubuntu I tend to use only packages that are in the main component of the repository. They are well-supported and you get timely security updates, but that's only about 15 % of the packages. Everything else can be anything between hit or miss. Sometimes they work fine, sometimes they don't. Packages from universe are only community supported, an may not get any security updates or may not even work at all. That can be ok on a desktop, but if you're running it on a server you probably want to use upstream packages or a PPA instead.

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 21:25 UTC (Thu) by amacater (subscriber, #790) [Link] (2 responses)

If you're running it on a server and need to install PPAs to avoid universe - you may be doing it wrongly

A server should probably have minimal numbers of packages - no gui - run from command line. Given the length of support - you might be better to be running Debian anyway.

Given the need for significant numbers of developers to package software / team maintenance - you might be better to be running Debian anyway.

Given the need to trust the upstream developer and individual PPAs aren't necessarily as traceable or reproducible - you might be better to be running Debian anyway

Given that Ubuntu is a derivative distribution where the upstream is Debian and you can shortcut the process by moving upstream - you might be better to be running Debian anyway

You might be better to be running Debian anyway ...

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 13, 2016 21:35 UTC (Thu) by gutschke (subscriber, #27910) [Link]

My point stands just the same. Xenial makes for a great host for Debian containers too

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 14:29 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152) [Link]

Or one (like me) prefers to run Ubuntu on the desktop while running mostly in house developed software on the servers -> easier to run Ubuntu servers as well as you can simly build on your desktop without a chroot or build server and ship directly to servers with scp.

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 2:33 UTC (Fri) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872) [Link]

> Asterisk [...] is hopelessly broken in Xenial.

Can I ask what you found to be particularly broken about it? I just deployed an Asterisk system running on Xenial, and although Asterisk is indeed broken out of the box, it seems like it just needed some module loading dependencies hand-edited to get it to a working state. On the other hand, my organization needs a pretty minimal configuration, so maybe I'm not using the functionality that you found to be broken.

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 27, 2016 10:04 UTC (Thu) by callegar (guest, #16148) [Link]

> Asterisk. It is hopelessly broken in Xenial

On the other hand, having the system boot at all seems to be problematic in yakkety. Found out later that disabling quotas may make systems that stopped booting after the xenial->yakkety upgrade boot again. Looks like there is some misconfiguration of the ordering of things in the systemd units for yakkety.

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 14, 2016 1:46 UTC (Fri) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link] (1 responses)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtTC3pGBjs4

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 20, 2016 17:03 UTC (Thu) by simosx (guest, #24338) [Link]

It's yakkety with two ks.

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

Posted Oct 20, 2016 17:14 UTC (Thu) by simosx (guest, #24338) [Link]

There are more details as to what is new in 16.10 at https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/10/13/canonical-releases-ubuntu-16-10/

Notably, LXD 2.4 (machine containers) and Juju 2.0 (orchestration).


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