Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop and Server Editions and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon’s EC2, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition.

Codenamed “Lucid Lynx”, 10.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user.

Thank you to everyone who helped with the ISO testing! We really appreciate it.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release Candidate ISO Testing

Next week is ISO testing week for the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release Candidate.

The Release Candidate will be released on April 22.

We need to test the ISOs to make sure that installation and functionality are working correctly.

Please sync your ISOs over the weekend, so you are prepared when the Ubuntu Release Team starts posting images to the ISO tracker [1].

To zsync your images, you can use the *dl-ubuntu-test-iso* script, which is part of the *ubuntu-qa-tools* package.

If you would like to know how ISO testing works, please review the procedures at [2].

Thanks!

[1] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Procedures

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 Released

Hi folks,

Thanks to all who helped with ISO testing of the Beta 2 release.

The Ubuntu team has announced the second beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop and Server Editions and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon’s EC2, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition. Codenamed “Lucid Lynx”, 10.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
The Ubuntu 10.04 family of variants, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu, also reached beta status.

The full release notes can be found at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta2

To upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2 from Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 8.04 LTS,
follow these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades or download Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2: http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/

Ubuntu Lucid Beta 2 ISO Testing

Hi everyone!

The Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 archive is frozen for Beta 2. Please consider participating in the ISO image testing to ensure we have good test coverage.

The procedures for testing ISO images and reporting results are explained at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Procedures

To zsync your images, you can use the *dl-ubuntu-test-iso* script, which is part of the *ubuntu-qa-tools* package.

Test results will be tracked at:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/

We will coordinate testing in #ubuntu-testing on freenode. Please, go there often to see what others are testing or what needs to be tested.

Thank you very much for your help!