14 DAY TRIAL // The Ubuntu 14.04 development cycle is coming along just nicely, but its developers must also concentrate on all the other problems that might arise when users try to upgrade from an older version.
The testing for this procedure has been very fruitful until now, and the developers have made a lot of progress. Soon, most problems will be fixed.
“I'm pleased to announce that after lots of fixing packages, infrastructure, and scripts, automatic testing of distro release upgrades is now back.”
“All except one scenario now succeed, and that red one is a problem with the test scripts (it already succeeded several times, I'm looking into that now). We test a number of different scenarios like desktop, server, server tasks, on i386 and amd64, from 12.04.{0,1,2,3.4} (different due to the backported LTS enablement stacks) and 12.10 to 13.10 and trusty,” said Ubuntu developer Martin Pitt.
When Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) launches on April 17, the upgrade paths and procedures have to work flawlessly, and it seems that the developers are on the right track.