14 DAY TRIAL // A few hours ago, October 6, 2016, Canonical's Adam Conrad announced that the upcoming Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating system entered the Final Freeze development stage.
Dubbed Yakkety Yak, the Ubuntu 16.10 is the latest release of the popular Linux distribution used by millions of computer users worldwide. Actually, Ubuntu is not only available for desktop, server, and cloud, but also on your smartphone or table mobile device.
The Final Freeze stage is the last step in the development process of the distribution, and it means that only important packages that fix critical bugs will be accepted in the repositories. With this, the development cycle has come to an end, and now Canonical prepares for the final release of Ubuntu 16.10.
"As of now, yakkety has entered the Final Freeze period in preparation for the final release of Ubuntu 16.10 next week," says Adam Conrad. "The current uploads in the queue will be reviewed and either accepted or rejected as appropriate by pre-freeze standards, but anything from here on should fit two broad categories."
Ubuntu 16.10 hits the streets on October 13, powered by Linux kernel 4.8
October 6 also marks the Language Pack Translation deadline for translators, and there might also be a Release Candidate version seeded internally for final testings. If everything goes well, Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) will hit the streets next week, on October 13, 2016.
On this occasion, we'll remind you that Ubuntu 16.10 is powered by the recently released Linux 4.8 kernel, ships with the Unity 7 interface by default and an optional (experimental) Unity 8 session, and will have a bunch of new wallpapers, packages from the GNOME 3.20 and 3.22 stacks, and all the latest software releases.