Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat”: Best New Features
Being a "Long term support" release, a lot is at stake. All the features, packages, modules are carefully chosen so that it remains stable until five years, i.e. July 2029. Overall, the feature set mostly at behind the scene, making it a more secure and stronger release.
In the following page, we will touch upon the best key features of this version, primarily focussing on the desktop variant.
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Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS Beta Released
The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS, codenamed “Noble Numbat”.
While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper installer bugs, you will find some bugs within. This image is, however, mostly representative of what you will find when Ubuntu Studio 24.04 is released on April 25, 2024.
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) Beta released
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Desktop, Server, and Cloud products.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed “Noble Numbat”, continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been very hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
This Beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, but also the Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity and Xubuntu flavors.
The Beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper image build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on April 25, 2024.
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Released, Here’s What’s New
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS “Noble Numbat” beta is now available for community testing. This release, however, saw a slight delay; a decision stemmed from a recent security incident involving the xz/liblzma vulnerability, which led to the decision to rebuild the entire release with the patched version of the library in question.
OpenSUSE also took a similar approach a bit earlier for its Tumbleweed. Now, back to the topic.
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Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Released, This is What’s New
Ubuntu 24.04 will become the next long-term support release (LTS) and this beta will provide developers, testers, and enthusiasts time to try it out, track down bugs, and road test its new features.
Beta releases are not intended for everyday use (i.e. you’re not supposed to install it as your main OS or on machines you rely on) but, that said, many folks do.
The Noble development cycle hasn’t been without its dramas and hiccups.
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta is Out for Testing
Ubuntu 24.04, code-name Noble Numbat, is finally available for Beta testing after a week of delay.
Ubuntu 24.04 is long term support (LTS) release with 5-year of support. By enabling Ubuntu Pro, user can get 7 years more security updates. Meaning that Ubuntu LTS has 12 years of support!
The new LTS features GA Kernel 5.8 and GNOME Desktop 46.
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Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS Beta released
Ubuntu enthusiasts and the Linux community at large have a reason to be excited, as Canonical announces the Beta release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Codenamed "Noble Numbat," this release continues Ubuntu's legacy of blending cutting-edge open source technologies into a user-friendly, high-quality distribution.
This latest iteration includes a broad spectrum of Ubuntu products, ranging from the Desktop, Server, and Cloud platforms to various community-driven flavors like Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and Ubuntu Budgie, among others. Aimed at delivering a snapshot of the robust features expected in the final release scheduled for April 25, 2024, the Beta images promise stability and minimal critical bugs.
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Kubuntu: Noble Numbat Beta available! Qt6 snaps coming soon
It has been a very busy couple of weeks as we worked against some major transitions and a security fix that required a rebuild of the $world. I am happy to report that against all odds we have a beta release! You can read all about it here: https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-24-04-beta-released/ Post beta freeze I have already begun pushing our fixes for known issues today. A big one being our new branding! Very exciting times in the Kubuntu world.
In the snap world I will be using my free time to start knocking out KDE applications ( not covered by the project ). I have also recruited some help, so you should start seeing these pop up in the edge channel very soon!
Now that we are nearing the release of Noble Numbat, my contract is coming to an end with Kubuntu. If you would like to see Plasma 6 in the next release and in a PPA for Noble, please consider donating to extend my contract at https://kubuntu.org/donate !
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Lubuntu Noble Beta Released!
Lubuntu is a lightweight flavor of Ubuntu, based on LXQt and built for you. As an official flavor, we benefit from Canonical’s infrastructure and assistance, in addition to the support and enthusiasm from the wider Ubuntu community. We are thankful for the opportunity to call ourselves an Ubuntu flavor; when there are common struggles, we step up to help. When discussions arise that affect the entire ecosystem, we lend a voice. This cycle was no different in that respect, but different in many others.
This started with the normal transitions that occur during the beginning of every cycle, a list of which can be found on the release schedule for Noble. These transitions take time; we (as Ubuntu) perform rigorous testing to ensure these packages are ready before publishing them for general availability. Several feature uploads became stuck, but we were looking forward to the opportunity to test after Feature Freeze.
We then faced two major transitions following Feature Freeze, the first of which was time_t. This allows for 32-bit devices to work past 2038. To learn more about the 2038 problem, visit this site. Immediately following this transition, the xz-utils backdoor was found. We would like to thank the Canonical and community developers involved in these transitions for their work around the clock to get everyone in the ecosystem to a releaseable state.
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Beta version of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with GNOME 46 and Linux 6.8 kernel available for download
Canonical has released the beta version of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed "Noble Numbat", for download. According to Canonical, the beta test period will run from 11th to 17th April, with the final release of the Linux distribution scheduled for 25th April 2024. The beta of Ubuntu 24.04 was originally scheduled to start a week earlier, but the XZ backdoor made it necessary to rebuild all packages in the repositories at short notice.
The main new features in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS are the latest version 46 of the desktop environment GNOME, which Canonical has slightly modified as usual, and the Linux kernel 6.8. In addition, the Mesa graphics stack has been updated to version 24.0.3 and the Netplan network configurator debuts in version 1.0. Canonical has improved the new Flutter-based installer introduced with Ubuntu 23.10, adding an accessibility page and extended support for hard disk encryption.