{"id":3425,"date":"2017-10-15T02:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2017-10-15T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T11:58:44","slug":"kubuntu-artful-aardvark-17-10-initial-rc-images-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/news\/kubuntu-artful-aardvark-17-10-initial-rc-images-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubuntu Artful Aardvark (17.10) initial RC images now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artful Aardvark (17.10) initial Release Candidate (RC) images are now available for testing. Help us make 17.10 the best release yet!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Note: This is an initial spin of the RC images. It is likely that at least one more rebuild will be done on Monday.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Adam Conrad from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-release\/2017-October\/004224.html\">Ubuntu release team list<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, I spun up a set of images for everyone with serial 20171015.<\/p>\n<p>Those images are *not* final images (ISO volid and base-files are still<br \/>\nnot set to their final values), intentionally, as we had some hiccups<br \/>\nwith langpack uploads that are landing just now.<\/p>\n<p>That said, we need as much testing as possible, bugs reported (and, if<br \/>\nyou can, fixed), so we can turn around and have slightly more final<br \/>\nimages produced on Monday morning. If we get no testing, we get no<br \/>\nfixing, so no time like the present to go bug-hunting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Adam<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Kubuntu team will be releasing 17.10 on October 19, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This is an initial pre-release. Kubuntu RC pre-releases are NOT recommended for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regular users who are not aware of pre-release issues<\/li>\n<li>Anyone who needs a stable system<\/li>\n<li>Anyone uncomfortable running a possibly frequently broken system<\/li>\n<li>Anyone in a production environment with data or workflows that need to be reliable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kubuntu pre-releases are recommended for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Regular users who want to help us test by finding, reporting, and\/or fixing bugs<\/li>\n<li>Kubuntu, KDE, and Qt developers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Getting Kubuntu 17.10 Intial Release Candidate<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>To upgrade to Kubuntu 17.10 pre-releases from 17.04, run<\/p>\n<p><em>sudo do-release-upgrade -d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from a command line.<\/p>\n<p>Download a Bootable image and put it onto a DVD or USB Drive here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iso.qa.ubuntu.com\/qatracker\/milestones\/383\/builds\">http:\/\/iso.qa.ubuntu.com\/qatracker\/milestones\/383\/builds<\/a> (the little CD icon)<\/p>\n<p>See our release notes:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/ArtfulAardvark\/Kubuntu\">https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/ArtfulAardvark\/Kubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please report any bugs on Launchpad using the commandline:<\/p>\n<p><em>ubuntu-bug packagename<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check on IRC channels, Kubuntuforum or the Kubuntu mail lists if you don\u2019t know the package name. Once the bug is reported on Launchpad, please link to it on the <a href=\"http:\/\/iso.qa.ubuntu.com\/qatracker\/milestones\/383\/builds\/158983\">qatracker<\/a> where you got your RC image. Join the community ISO testing party:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.ubuntu.com\/t\/ubuntu-17-10-community-iso-testing\/458\">https:\/\/community.ubuntu.com\/t\/ubuntu-17-10-community-iso-testing\/458<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KDE bugs (bugs in Plasma or KDE applications) are still filed at <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.kde.org\">https:\/\/bugs.kde.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artful Aardvark (17.10) initial Release Candidate (RC) images are now available for testing. Help us make 17.10 the best release yet! Note: This is an initial spin of the RC images. It is likely that at least one more rebuild will be done on Monday. Adam Conrad from the Ubuntu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129,243],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}