14 DAY TRIAL // As of Thursday, April 11th, the forthcoming Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) operating system has entered the last stage of its development process, Final Freeze stage.
The Final Freeze stage is the final step in the development cycle of Ubuntu Linux, meaning that only release-critical bugs that affect the ISO images or the installers will be accepted from here on until the final release. It also means that Release Candidate (RC) images will soon be available for public testing.
"We will shut down cronjobs and spin some RC images late Friday or early Saturday once the archive and proposed-migration have settled a bit, and we expect everyone with a vested interest in a flavour (or two) and a few spare hours here and there to get to testing to make sure we have another uneventful release next week," said Adam Conrad.
Ubuntu 19.04 arrives on April 18th with GNOME 3.32 and Linux kernel 5.0
The final release of the Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) operating system is expected to arrive next Thursday, on April 18th. It will be powered by the latest Linux 5.0 kernel series and ship with the recently released GNOME 3.32 desktop environment by default for the Ubuntu Desktop variant.
It will also include up-to-date components and apps like LibreOffice 6.2.2, Mozilla Firefox 66.0, GCC 8.3, Glibc 2.29, Python 3.7.2, Boost 1.67, rustc 1.31, libvvirt 5.0, Ruby 2.5.3, PHP 7.2.15, OpenJDK 11, QEMU 3.1, Perl 5.28.1, Golang 1.10.4, and many others that will be revealed on launch day.
The Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) operating system will have a nine month support cycle for security and software updates, until January 2020. It's not an LTS (Long Term Support) version, so it's only recommended for bleeding-edge users who want to run the latest version of Ubuntu, not the most stable and well-tested.