Canonical has published a draft release schedule for Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’.
According to the timetable we should expect the final stable release of Ubuntu 24.10 to arrive on Thursday October 10, 2024.
Six months of development lay ahead, with a beta release of the ‘Oracular Oriole’ set to take flight on September 19, followed by a release candidate build on October 3 to help identify extant issues.
As a short-term or ‘interim’ release Ubuntu 24.10 will only get 9 months on support from its release. Short but sweet and it dovetails into the Ubuntu 25.04 release due in April of next year.
Key milestones in the Ubuntu 24.10 release schedule (subject to change):
- Feature Freeze: August 15th
- User Interface Freeze: September 5th
- Kernel Freeze: September 26th
- Final Freeze: October 3rd
With notable release dates as follows, all 2024:
- Ubuntu 24.10 (beta): September 19th
- Ubuntu 24.10 (release candidate): October 3rd
- Ubuntu 24.10 (stable release): October 10th
Daily builds of Ubuntu 24.10 will be made available to test from… Well, any day now. Daily builds are by their nature unstable, especially at the start of a new development cycle due to package churn from syncing and import from Debian.
But once Ubuntu 24.10 hits its stride it should offer some appreciable updates.
Ubuntu 24.10 will offer Linux kernel 6.11 (or newer), the GNOME 47 desktop, and (likely) further improvements to the Flutter-based desktop installer. Might the Desktop Security Center we briefly glimpsed during the noble cycle reappear also?
There’s also a chance that the various kinks which caused Canonical developers to postpone the release of an all-snap immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop alongside Ubuntu 24.04 are resolved, leading to its first formal appearance in the wild.
For now, lot of maybes. As plans for this release shore up you can be sure I’ll be writing about them so keep an eye on the blog as development gets underway.