Let’s go, folks — Ubuntu 24.10 daily builds are available for download.
Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’ officially opened for development earlier this week following the reveal of the official codename (more than window dressing the codename is a critical part of infrastructure setup) and a draft Ubuntu 24.10 release schedule.
As development has only just started there’s no compelling need to download an Ubuntu 24.10 daily build right now. The beginning of each Ubuntu development cycle is primarily made up of package churn with little “new” to enthuse over.
Of course, there’s certain to be a slow of new features in Ubuntu 24.10 to talk, but it’ll be a few weeks before they start trickling in — so keep your eyes peeled here, eh?
What are Ubuntu Daily Builds?
Ubuntu daily builds are pre-release versions of the distro intended solely for testing. As the name suggests, daily builds are generated daily though there are occasional pauses owing to release freezes, build failures, and other unintended snafus.
While Ubuntu daily builds are not supposed to be used as your main OS (they undergo automated testing but will contain bugs, development versions of software, half-finished features, and so on) they are a great way to try a release prior to its official release.
Indeed, many folks install a daily build then ‘ride’ the development cycle as if it were a rolling release, i.e. installing all updates as they’re released (and hoping nothing installed causes breakage, which isn’t a given).
Download Ubuntu 24.10 Daily Builds
You can download Ubuntu 24.10 daily builds from the Ubuntu cdimage website.
- Daily builds in ‘current’ have passed automated testing
- Daily builds in ‘pending’ are, well, pending testing
Automated testing doesn’t scout for minor bugs, UI paper cuts, or broken apps, etc., those things require human attention. Rather, a series of auto tests are run to check for major breakage, verify the integrity of the image, that it boots, installs, etc.
I only ever use images in the current folder and would advice anyone else to do the same — unless there’s a specific change or package that will only be in pending at the time you need to test it, wait for a current build to be generated.
Still, both versions are regular ISOs which you can boot in a virtual machine (recommend) or flash to a USB to test the release on real hardware.