The Quantal Quetzal will be released on October 2012

May 1, 2012 08:30 GMT  ·  By

Matthias Klose announced last evening, April 30th, that the next version of the popular Ubuntu operating system, Ubuntu 12.10 is now open for development.

Dubbed Quantal Quetzal, Ubuntu 12.10 will have a development cycle composed of three Alpha versions and two  Beta releases. The final version of Ubuntu 12.10 will see the light of day on October 18th, 2012.

"Quantal is now open for development, with syncs from unstable starting shortly. The development version starts with updated versions of GCC and OpenJDK, some soname changes (boost, hdf5), and some changes with setting the build flags for package builds."

"We are finally targeting Python3 as the only Python version on the ISO/installation images." - said Matthias Klose in the mailinglist announcement.

GCC 4.7 will be the default compiler for Ubuntu 12.10, OpenJDK 7 replaces OpenJDK 6 as the default Java Development Kit, and Python 3 will be the only Python version pre-installed on the ISO images of Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal).

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