{"id":3811,"date":"2018-04-06T06:13:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T06:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2018-04-06T06:13:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T06:13:34","slug":"kubuntu-bionic-beaver-18-04-lts-beta-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/news\/kubuntu-bionic-beaver-18-04-lts-beta-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Kubuntu Bionic Beaver (18.04 LTS) Beta 2 Released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second beta of the Bionic Beaver (to become 18.04 LTS) has now been released, and is available for download!<\/p>\n<p>This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-releases of the Bionic Beaver are <em>not<\/em> encouraged for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anyone needing a stable system<\/li>\n<li>Anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are, however, recommended for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu flavour developers<\/li>\n<li>Those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs as we work towards getting this release ready.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beta 2 includes some software updates that are ready for broader testing. However, it is quite an early set of images, so you should <em>expect some bugs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-announce\/2018-April\/000230.html\">Read the full text of the Beta-2 announcement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cdimage.ubuntu.com\/kubuntu\/releases\/18.04\/beta-2\/\">Download the Kubuntu 18.04 Beta 2 images<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/BionicBeaver\/Beta2\/Kubuntu\">Read more information about the Kubuntu 18.04 Beta 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second beta of the Bionic Beaver (to become 18.04 LTS) has now been released, and is available for download! This milestone features images for Kubuntu and other Ubuntu flavours. Pre-releases of the Bionic Beaver are not encouraged for: Anyone needing a stable system Anyone who is not comfortable running&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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\/3811"}],"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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kubuntu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}