Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released
This release 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, together with the community and our partners, to introduce new features and fix bugs.
The list of changes and enhancements is long; click below for some details. More information can be found in the release notes; see also this page for a summary of security-related changes.
| From: | Utkarsh Gupta <utkarsh.gupta-AT-canonical.com> | |
| To: | ubuntu-announce-AT-lists.ubuntu.com | |
| Subject: | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released | |
| Date: | Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:50:52 +0530 | |
| Message-ID: | <Zip01Kv690IGvCVG@utkarsh2102> |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed “Noble Numbat”, is here. This release 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, together with the community and our partners, to introduce new features and fix bugs. Our 10th Long Term Supported release sets a new standard in performance engineering, enterprise security and developer experience. Ubuntu Desktop brings the Subiquity installer to an LTS for the first time. In addition to a refreshed user experience and a minimal install by default, the installer now includes experimental support for ZFS and TPM-based full disk encryption and the ability to import auto-install configurations. Post install, users will be greeted with the latest GNOME 46 alongside a new App Center and firmware-updater. Netplan is now the default for networking configuration and supports bidirectionality with NetworkManager. Ubuntu now enables frame pointers by default on 64-bit architectures to enable CPU and off-CPU profiling for workload optimisation, alongside a suite of critical performance tools pre-installed. The Linux 6.8 kernel now enables low-latency features by default. For IoT vendors leveraging 32-bit arm hardware, our armhf build has been updated to resolve the upcoming 2038 issue by implementing 64-bit time_t in all necessary packages. As always, Ubuntu ships with the latest toolchain versions. .NET 8 is now fully supported on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) for the full lifecycle of the release and OpenJDK 21 and 17 are both TCK certified to adhere to Java interoperability standards. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ships Rust 1.75 and a simpler Rust toolchain snap framework to enable future rust versions to be delivered to developers on this release in years to come. The newest Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu are also being released today. More details can be found for these at their individual release notes under the Official Flavours section: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-notes/ Maintenance updates will be provided for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud and Ubuntu Core. All the remaining flavours will be supported for 3 years. Additional security support is available with ESM (Extended Security Maintenance). To get Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ----------------------- In order to download Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, visit: https://ubuntu.com/download Users of Ubuntu 23.10 will soon be offered an automatic upgrade to 24.04. Users of 22.04 LTS will be offered the automatic upgrade when 24.04.1 LTS is released, which is scheduled for the 15th of August. For further information about upgrading, see: https://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 and workarounds for known issues, and provide more in-depth information on the release itself. They are available at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-notes/ Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview: https://ubuntu.com/desktop https://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.libera.chat https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users https://ubuntuforums.org https://askubuntu.com https://discourse.ubuntu.com Help Shape Ubuntu ----------------- If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/contribute About Ubuntu ------------ Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, IoT, cloud, and servers, 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 services including support are available from Canonical and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit: https://ubuntu.com/support More Information ---------------- You can learn more about Ubuntu and about this release on our website listed below: https://ubuntu.com To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu's very low volume announcement list at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Utkarsh Gupta -- ubuntu-announce mailing list ubuntu-announce@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce
Posted Apr 25, 2024 16:16 UTC (Thu)
by alspnost (guest, #2763)
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Posted Apr 25, 2024 16:30 UTC (Thu)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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How do you burn that to a DVD to install? ;-)
Cheers,
Posted Apr 25, 2024 16:38 UTC (Thu)
by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)
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Posted Apr 25, 2024 17:05 UTC (Thu)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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Or a BD-R instead - 25G capacity on a single layer disk, twice that on a dual-layer.
Posted Apr 25, 2024 17:29 UTC (Thu)
by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
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USB thumb drive is used by the vast majority of sane people these days. What are those thin plastic wheels?
Posted Apr 25, 2024 17:37 UTC (Thu)
by gus3 (guest, #61103)
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Posted Apr 25, 2024 18:49 UTC (Thu)
by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 1:58 UTC (Fri)
by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 2:49 UTC (Fri)
by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 4:31 UTC (Fri)
by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 16:41 UTC (Fri)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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When I left that job and started another they had 2 of those 300MB drives - and I remember them telling me the story of getting the second drive. When the supplier (Norsk Data) installed the computer with just the one drive originally, they didn't bother aligning it. So when the second drive arrived and they tried to do backups, nothing worked because the disk could only be read on the drive that wrote it!
Cheers,
Posted Apr 26, 2024 16:59 UTC (Fri)
by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 1:14 UTC (Fri)
by himi (subscriber, #340)
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It's an interesting world we live in these days, where tech that's nominally for on-line or near-line storage use is by far the most convenient and reliable place to keep long-term backups - even cheap thumb drives have proven quite reliable over quite a long time in storage, and I suspect a modern external SSD will be even more reliable over even longer time periods. The only remaining challenge seems to be finding laptops with USB-A ports you can plug them into . . .
Posted Apr 26, 2024 2:39 UTC (Fri)
by willy (subscriber, #9762)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 3:37 UTC (Fri)
by himi (subscriber, #340)
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It was, of course, a slightly facetious addendum, given it's not that hard to find a workaround - it's just a little irritating that laptops seem to be going all USB-C long before most common devices even support it. And I think it's a neat counterpoint to the discussion of ISO images and spinning-disk storage: we're still distributing software in a format that assumes a class of devices which are hard to find, and even when you do find them you may struggle to connect them to anything useful.
Posted Apr 26, 2024 4:15 UTC (Fri)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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But weren't “serious” OSes always distributed that way? Doesn't matter whether you have Dell Unix on a tape in year 1992 or Linux on DVD-ROM in year 2024 it's always something exotic and non-trivial. Windows 11 comes as DVD image even if most devices which support it come without DVDs!
Posted Apr 26, 2024 6:05 UTC (Fri)
by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
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I mean they can but if you do it, it will boot the installer but not install.
You need to do i from the windows USB creation tool, or run a very long and complicated sequence of commands on linux to be able to put a windows .iso on a USB device and then having that fully work.
Posted Apr 26, 2024 6:13 UTC (Fri)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Depends on the brand of your “USB device”. It installs just fine from my IODD Mini. But of course it's almost as exotic as tape drive needed to install aforementioned Dell Linux.
Posted Apr 26, 2024 9:35 UTC (Fri)
by pfavr (guest, #38205)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 11:01 UTC (Fri)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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Dunno how practical that is nowadays, but that's what I used to do all the time, as far back as Win3.1 and Win95 ...
Cheers,
Posted Apr 26, 2024 13:11 UTC (Fri)
by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 16:16 UTC (Fri)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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Then you boot from the iso in rescue mode, cd into the i386 folder, and run setup.
Cheers,
Posted Apr 26, 2024 18:41 UTC (Fri)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Contents of You need to put it on NTFS, since Windows installer would only look on FAT32 or NTFS partitions on USB stick, but that doesn't work with all PC loaders (only FAT32 support is mandatory for UEFI). The solution that works both in Linux and Windows world is to create two partitions, but that's quite the dance. The solution that works for Windows is to just use Rufus… The solution that's actually easy and supports everything from Windows 95 to latest Windows 11 and also any versions of FreeBSD, Linux or whatever is to use iODD… but that cost money.
Posted Apr 28, 2024 13:41 UTC (Sun)
by ericc72 (guest, #41737)
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I used to finagle things so I could boot my USB installer in either BIOS or UEFI. I cannot remember what I did, but with Rufus I was not able to achieve this. I discovered Ventoy and I now I can just drag and drop ISO images onto a large Ventoy prepared USB stick and that has been awesome!
Posted Apr 28, 2024 15:46 UTC (Sun)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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I'm quite suprised that you had no success, because you only need to, essentially, create two partitions, one FAT, one NTFS and put everything except Rufus does that better and, more importantly, it may, optionally, disable TPM checking which is important if your system is not officially supported by Windows 11. Not sure if that works for very old BIOS machines or not, though: I don't need Windows 11 on them and everything else is better served by iODD drive.
Posted Apr 26, 2024 18:34 UTC (Fri)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 9:13 UTC (Fri)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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My external BD-RW drive has a USB micro-B connector; I use a USB-C to USB micro-B cable for it (the original A to micro B cable has long since been destroyed by the ravages of time, and C to micro B costs the same as A to micro B).
Posted Apr 27, 2024 6:43 UTC (Sat)
by skia (subscriber, #113941)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 7:27 UTC (Fri)
by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497)
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> Upgrades from previous Ubuntu releases are not supported yet. Critical bug fixes for upgrades are expected in the coming days (LP: #2063221 is one example of a critical bug that is difficult to recover from. Please be patient here or make a backup and do a clean install instead.)
Looking at the bug, it's one of the usual fun unexpected combination of circumstances where the 64-bit time_t transition got entangled with the Thunderbird deb to snap transition where it ends up running the Thunderbird snap's post-installation hook at a time where some necessary desktop cache update tools are not yet installed, which brings the whole house of cards down.
Posted Apr 26, 2024 8:28 UTC (Fri)
by alspnost (guest, #2763)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 17:23 UTC (Fri)
by jeleinweber (subscriber, #8326)
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Posted Apr 29, 2024 9:36 UTC (Mon)
by cerebus (subscriber, #162576)
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Posted Apr 26, 2024 20:30 UTC (Fri)
by swilmet (subscriber, #98424)
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It's on the roadmap for Flathub, but what about Ubuntu and snaps?
I would for once be interested in the snap format if it brings me a remuneration.
Posted Apr 28, 2024 8:17 UTC (Sun)
by Herve5 (subscriber, #115399)
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That's the *very* reason for which I remain on Debian : not risking a lock in M.Shuttleworth walled garden...
Posted Apr 29, 2024 3:01 UTC (Mon)
by atai (subscriber, #10977)
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Looking good - I've been running the beta/RC without incident, and some longstanding weirdnesses with previous versions seem to be fixed, which is nice. Interesting that the final release desktop ISO grew quite significantly from the beta. It's now a hefty 5.7GB download. Anyone one what's been re-added?
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Wol
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They're too small to make good frisbees, but they have been used as coasters for a good long time.
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Wol
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> we're still distributing software in a format that assumes a class of devices which are hard to find, and even when you do find them you may struggle to connect them to anything useful.
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released
> And the windows .iso images can't go on USB devices directly.
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Of course Ubuntu install worked flawlessly :-)
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Wol
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Wol
> Copying the .iso obviously won't work, but are you saying you can't copy the contents of the .iso either?
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.iso includes install.wim which grew larger than 4GB after October 2018 Windows 10 1809 update and thus wouldn't fit on FAT32 partition.Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released
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install.wim on FAT and also everything including install.wim on NTFS.
It works with Windows 10 32bit or Windows 10 prior to the October 2018 Windows 10 1809 update.
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Fun times for everyone.
Interesting - I propose to do a clean install anyway, since it's basically just as quick, with the right partitioning strategy. And I haven't used Thunderbird for years!
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released
I just keep it around as a stable fallback distro in case I hose up my sid daily driver. So I'm glad I let it be stable, and can install the Numbat when it has a few more patches. Thanks for posting the bug warning!
App Center: future App Store?
App Center: future App Store?
App Center: future App Store?