Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Won’t Be Released This Week
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Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta reports that an ‘unfortunate incident’ resulting in some of the newly spun Ubuntu 24.04.2 images (for flavours) being built without the new HWE kernel on board (which is Linux 6.11, for those unaware).
Now, including a new kernel version on the ISO is kind of the whole point of the second Ubuntu point release. It has to be there so that the latest long-term support release can boot on and support the latest hardware – long-term support means just that.
And while the main Ubuntu ISO did include it, flavours images are Ubuntu too – it’s only right they all arrive at the same time.
Ubuntu installer images are being rebuilt with the correct kernel on board but each ISO also needs to undergo (re)testing. As there’s not enough time to do all of that and still meet the original release date of February 13th…