The beta release will be available on September 26th

Apr 30, 2019 17:12 GMT  ·  By

Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 operating system is now officially open for development, giving us a first glimpse of what to expect from the final release this fall.

Following the daily build ISO images, which were seeded to public testers last week, Ubuntu 19.10 has officially entered development with the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 9 series as default system-wide compiler, as well was Python 3.7 as default Python implementation with Python 3.8 available in the repositories.

The ICU (International Components for Unicode) package will also be bumped to version 64.2 or newer in the development cycle of Ubuntu 19.10, the Boost libraries to version 1.70 or newer, and the Glibc (GNU C Library) to version 2.30, which should be released in August. Other components include Golang 1.12 and OpenJDK 11 by default.

"Please note that Debian [Buster] is frozen, thus there shouldn't be too big of a flood of updates/merges initially," said Dimitri John Ledkov. "But there might be a lot of things landing if Debian releases in the next 6 months. And it's time to start thinking about landing things for the next LTS release."

Ubuntu 19.10 to be released on October 17th

Other noteworthy changes to land in the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 release, include support for the IBM System z (s390x), PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (PPC64el), and AArch64 (ARM64) architectures for the Ubuntu Server installer. Also, on x86 platforms, the installer will use symlinks for initrd and vmlinuz in the /boot directory instead of /.

The release schedule of Ubuntu 19.10 is already available, suggesting that the final release will hit the streets on October 17th, and that the beta version should be available for public testing on September 26th, 2019. Ubuntu 19.10 is expected to ship with the upcoming GNOME 3.34 desktop environment and probably the Linux 5.3 kernel series.