Kubuntu 17.10 – Kubuntu https://kubuntu.org Friendly Computing Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:06:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 Kubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark is released https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-17-10-artful-aardvark-is-released/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:51:16 +0000 https://kubuntu.org/?p=3427

Kubuntu 17.10 has been released, featuring the beautiful Plasma 5.10 desktop from KDE.

Codenamed “Artful Aardvark”, Kubuntu 17.10 continues our 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, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.13-based kernel, KDE Frameworks 5.38, Plasma 5.10.5 and KDE Applications 17.04.3


Kubuntu has seen some exciting improvements, with newer versions of Qt, updates to major packages like Krita, Kdenlive, Firefox and LibreOffice, and stability improvements to KDE Plasma.

For a list of other application updates, upgrading notes and known bugs be sure to read our release notes.

Download 17.10 or read about how to upgrade from 17.04.

]]> Updated Kubuntu 17.10 RC ISOs now available https://kubuntu.org/news/updated-kubuntu-17-10-rc-isos-now-available/ Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:19:49 +0000 https://kubuntu.org/?p=3454 Following on from yesterday’s 1st spin of the 17.10 RC images by the ubuntu release team, today the RC images (marked Artful Final on the QA tracker) have been re-spun and updated.

Please update your ISOs if you downloaded previous images, and test as before.

Please help us by testing as much as you have time for. Remember, in particular we need i386 testers, on “bare metal” rather than VMs if possible.

Builds are available from:

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/383/builds

the CD image to left of the ISO names being a link to take you to download urls/options.

Take note of the Ubuntu Community ISO testing party on Monday 16th at 15:00 UTC:

https://community.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-17-10-community-iso-testing/458

Please attend and participate if you are able. The #ubuntu-on-air IRC channel on irc.freenode.net can be joined via a web client found beneath the live stream on ubuntuonair.com, or of course you can join in a normal IRC client.

Happy testing,

Rik Mills

Kubuntu Developer
Kubuntu Release team

]]> Kubuntu Artful Aardvark (17.10) final Beta images now available https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-artful-aardvark-17-10-final-beta-images-now-available/ Fri, 29 Sep 2017 02:44:51 +0000 https://kubuntu.org/?p=3408 Artful Aardvark (17.10) final Beta images are now available for testing. Help us make 17.10 the best release yet!

The Kubuntu team will be releasing 17.10 on October 19, 2017.

This is the final Beta pre-release. Kubuntu Beta pre-releases are NOT recommended for:

  • Regular users who are not aware of pre-release issues
  • Anyone who needs a stable system
  • Anyone uncomfortable running a possibly frequently broken system
  • Anyone in a production environment with data or workflows that need to be reliable

Kubuntu Beta pre-releases are recommended for:

  • Regular users who want to help us test by finding, reporting, and/or fixing bugs
  • Kubuntu, KDE, and Qt developers

Getting Kubuntu 17.10 Beta 2:

To upgrade to Kubuntu 17.10 pre-releases from 17.04, run

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

from a command line.

Download a Bootable image and put it onto a DVD or USB Drive here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/17.10/beta-2/

Torrents are also available.

See our release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/Beta2/Kubuntu

Please report any bugs on Launchpad using the commandline:

ubuntu-bug packagename

Check on IRC channels, Kubuntuforum or the Kubuntu mail lists if you don’t know the package name.

KDE bugs (bugs in Plasma or KDE applications) are still filed at https://bugs.kde.org.

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