Xubuntu 18.10 released!

October 18, 2018 — , —

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 18.10!

Xubuntu 18.10 is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until July 2019. If you need a stable environment with longer support time, we recommend that you use Xubuntu 18.04 LTS instead.

The final release images are available as torrents and direct downloads from xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/

As the main server might be busy in the first few days after the release, we recommend using the torrents if possible.

We’d like to thank everybody who contributed to this release of Xubuntu!

Highlights and Known Issues

Highlights

  • Several Xfce components and apps were updated to their 4.13 development releases, bringing us closer to a Gtk+3-only desktop
  • elementary Xfce Icon Theme 0.13 with the manila folder icons as seen in the upstream elementary icon theme
  • Greybird 3.22.9, which improves the look and feel of our window manager, alt-tab dialog, Chromium, and even pavucontrol
  • A new default wallpaper featuring a gentle purple tone that greatly complements our Gtk+ and icon themes

Known Issues

  • At times the panel could show 2 network icons, this appears to be a race condition which we have not been able to rectify in time for release
  • In the settings Manager, the mouse fails to scroll apps in settings manager (GTK+ 3 regression)

For more obscure known issues, information on affecting bugs, bug fixes, and a list of new package versions, please refer to the Xubuntu Release Notes.

The main Ubuntu Release Notes cover both many of the other packages we carry and more generic issues.

Support

For support with the release, navigate to Help & Support for a complete list of methods to get help.

Xubuntu 18.04.1 released!

July 26, 2018 — , —

The first point release for 18.04 Bionic Beaver has now been released.

As usual, this point release includes many updates, and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded after installation. These include security updates and corrections for other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

The point release images are available as torrents immediately from the links below.

64-bit systems32-bit systems

The images are also available as direct downloads from xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/. As the main server and mirrors might be busy for the first few days after the release, we recommend using the torrents if possible.

Xubuntu 17.10 EOL

July 21, 2018 —

On Thursday 19th July 2018, Xubuntu 17.10 goes End of Life (EOL). For more information please see the Ubuntu 17.10 EOL Notice.

We strongly recommend upgrading to the current release, Xubuntu 18.04, as soon as practical. Alternatively you can download the current Xubuntu release and install fresh.

New Wiki pages for Testers

May 23, 2018 — , —

During the last few weeks of the 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) cycle, we had 2 people drop by in our development channel trying to respond to the call for testers from the Development and QA Teams.

It quickly became apparent to me that I was having to repeat myself in order to make it “basic” enough for someone who had never tested for us, to understand what I was trying to put across.

After pointing to the various resources we have, and other flavours use – it transpired that they both would have preferred something a bit easier to start with.

So I asked them to write it for us all.

Rather than belabour my point here, I’ve asked both of them to write a few words about what they needed and what they have achieved for everyone.

Before they get that chance – I would just like to thank them both for the hours of work they have put in drafting, tweaking and getting the pages into a position where we can tell you all of their existence.

You can see the fruits of their labour at our updated web page for Testers and the new pages we have at the New Tester wiki.

Kev
On behalf of the Xubuntu Development and QA Teams.

“I see the whole idea of OS software and communities helping themselves as a breath of fresh air in an ever more profit obsessed world (yes, I am a cynical old git).

I really wanted to help, but just didn’t think that I had any of the the skills required, and the guides always seemed to assume a level of knowledge that I just didn’t have.

So, when I was asked to help write a ‘New Testers’ guide for my beloved Xubuntu I absolutely jumped at the chance, knowing that my ignorance was my greatest asset.

I hope what resulted from our work will help those like me (people who can easily learn but need to be told pretty much everything from the bottom up) to start testing and enjoy the warm, satisfied glow of contributing to their community.
Most of all, I really enjoyed collaborating with some very nice people indeed.”
Leigh Sutherland

“I marvel at how we live in an age in which we can collaborate and share with people all over the world – as such I really like the ideas of free and open source. A long time happy Xubuntu user, I felt the time to be involved, to go from user-only to contributor was long overdue – Xubuntu is a community effort after all. So, when the call for testing came last March, I dove in. At first testing seemed daunting, complicated and very technical. But, with leaps and bounds, and the endless patience and kindness of the Xubuntu-bunch over at Xubuntu-development, I got going. I felt I was at last “paying back”. When flocculant asked if I would help him and Leigh to write some pages to make the information about testing more accessible for users like me, with limited technical skills and knowledge, I really liked the idea. And that started a collaboration I really enjoyed.

It’s my hope that with these pages we’ve been able to get across the information needed by someone like I was when I started -technical newby, noob- to simply get set up to get testing.

It’s also my hope people like you will tell us where and how these pages can be improved, with the aim to make the first forays into testing as gentle and easy as possible. Because without testing we as a community can not make xubuntu as good as we’d want it to be.”
Willem Hobers

Xubuntu 18.04 released!

April 26, 2018 — , —

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 18.04. Xubuntu 18.04 is a long-term support (LTS) release and will be supported for 3 years, until April 2021.

The final release images are available as torrents immediately from the links below.

64-bit systems32-bit systems

The images are also available as direct downloads from xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/. As the main server and mirrors might be busy for the first few days after the release, we recommend using the torrents if possible.

Xubuntu Core, our minimal installation option, is available to download from unit193.net/xubuntu/core/ [64-bit magnet, 32-bit magnet]. Find out more about Xubuntu Core here.

We’d like to thank everybody who contributed to this release of Xubuntu!

Support

For support with the release, navigate to Help & Support for a complete list of methods to get help.

Highlights and Known Issues

The below is just a quick peek at the most important highlights and issues. More updates and new features are listed on the very thorough release notes.

Highlights

  • Some GNOME applications are replaced with corresponding MATE applications for improved consistency with almost identical set of features
  • The Sound Indicator plugin is replaced with the Xfce PulseAudio plugin in the panel, improving controlling the volume and multimedia applications from the panel
  • The new xfce4-notifyd panel plugin is included, allowing you to easily toggle “Do Not Disturb” mode for notifications as well as view missed notifications
  • Significantly improved menu editing with a new MenuLibre version
  • Better support for HiDPI screens, better consistency and other improvements from the Greybird GTK+ theme

Known Issues

  • The “Force UEFI installation” dialog has non-working Go Back/Continue buttons (1724482).
  • The automatically selected keyboard layout does not necessarily match the chosen region (1706859).

As always, check Launchpad for bugs related to your hardware to make sure there aren’t any critical bugs that could potentially make your system unbootable or otherwise unusable.

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