It also includes support for Intel Cherryview, Haswell, Broadwell and Merrifield systems, and initial support for Nvidia GK20A and GK110B GPU’s. This brings a significant number of bug fixes and new hardware support including expanded architecture support for Power 8 and arm64 platforms.

The Ubuntu 14.10 release delivers a v3.16 based kernel. Many of these packages came from an automatic sync from Debian's unstable branch others have been explicitly pulled in for Ubuntu 14.10.įor a list of all packages being accepted for Ubuntu 14.10, please subscribe to utopic-changes. Please test and report any bugs you find:Īs with every new release, packages-applications and software of all kinds-are being updated at a rapid pace. Please see the Utopic blueprint list for details. Please ensure you have network connectivity to one of the official mirrors or to a locally accessible mirror and follow the instructions above. There are no offline upgrade options for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server. Note that the server upgrade will use GNU screen and automatically re-attach in case of dropped connection problems. Launch the upgrade tool with the command sudo do-release-upgrade.

Make sure the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades is set to normal.

Install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed.

Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '14.10' is available.

Press Alt+F2 and type in 'update-manager' (without the quotes) into the command box.

Set the 'Notify me of a new Ubuntu version' dropdown menu to 'For any new version'.

Open the 'Software & Updates' Setting in Systemsettings. Images can be downloaded from a location near you. Ubuntu 14.10 will be supported for 9 months for Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin along with all other flavours.įind the links to release notes for official flavors here. These release notes for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu 14.10 and its flavors.

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