18.10 – Kubuntu https://kubuntu.org Friendly Computing Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:32:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 Kubuntu 18.10 reaches end of life https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-18-10-reaches-end-of-life/ Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:35:21 +0000 https://kubuntu.org/?p=4140 Kubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish was released on October 18th 2018 with 9 months support. As of 18th July 2019, 18.10 reaches ‘end of life’. No more package updates will be accepted to 18.10, and it will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks.

The official end of life announcement for Ubuntu as a whole can be found here [1].

Kubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo continues to be supported, receiving security and high-impact bugfix updates until January 2020.

Users of 18.10 can follow the Kubuntu 18.10 to 19.04 Upgrade [2] instructions.

Should for some reason your upgrade be delayed, and you find that the 18.10 repositories have been archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com, instructions to perform a EOL Upgrade can be found on the Ubuntu wiki [3].

Thank you for using Kubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish.

The Kubuntu team.

[1] – https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2019-July/000247.html
[2] – https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiscoUpgrades/Kubuntu
[3] – https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades

]]> Kubuntu Cosmic Cuttlefish (18.10) Beta Released https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-cosmic-cuttlefish-18-10-beta-released/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 09:24:03 +0000 https://kubuntu.org/?p=3907 The beta of the Cosmic Cuttlefish (to become 18.10) has now been released, and is available for download at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/18.10/beta/

This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours.

Pre-releases of the Cosmic Cuttlefish are not encouraged for:

* Anyone needing a stable system
* Anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage.

They are, however, recommended for:

* Ubuntu flavour developers
* Those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready.
* the Beta includes some software updates that are ready for broader testing. However, it is an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs.

You can:

Read more information about the Kubuntu 18.10 Beta: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu

Download the Kubuntu 18.10 Beta images

Read the full text of the main Ubuntu Cosmic Beta announcement https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2018-September/004601.html

Read the main Ubuntu Cosmic Release notes, that may give more details of changes to the Ubuntu base: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes

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