It looks like the images are not passing the tests

Jul 8, 2015 07:15 GMT  ·  By

Ubuntu has daily images for its development cycle, and you can always download the latest version for the distros that is being worked on right at the moment. Or at least you could until Ubuntu 15.10. It seems that no image has passed testing for a few weeks.

Usually, a fresh image is generated on a daily basis during the development cycle. This is one of the reasons Canonical doesn't have Alpha and Beta versions, with one exception. It's always possible to get a daily build and check the progress. Well, you can't do that now because no fresh images have passed the tests, and the only version available is a few weeks old.

It's not a serious issue. If anything, Canonical wants to make sure that images pass testing before they get into the hands of users, and that's not a bad thing. You can always get the latest version that has been made available and update it, but that is more of an inconvenience. Also, regular users don't usually get development builds anyway, so it's not affecting a whole lot of people.

Ubuntu daily builds will resume

A user raised this issue on the official mailing list, and he also opened a bug on Launchpad, but it looks like it's a known issue and it will get repaired. "I've been thinking about upgrading to Wily, but I see that the latest 64-bit ISO is dated June 3rd, over a month ago. Can I infer that no daily build has passed tests since then and that Wily is not yet stable? Or is there some other reason why this ISO is so out of date?"

From what Iain Lane (software engineer from Canonical) said, the images are not passing smoke testing, but they are working on it, and they hope to fix the issue soon. In the meantime, you can always install the latest image that hasn't passed the test and hope that it will work.