Into the second month of 2025, we're getting 24.04.2. It's apparently scheduled for February 13 as per reports back in January. Much to my surprise however, I got the update early in 11th or 12th, if my memory serves me right. Did you guys got it too? How's it going for y'all?
On a different note, the images are delayed for a week, which reports attribute to the HWE kernel not being included in the CDs. Minor inconvenience though, but I hope it gets settled eventually.
...and Plucky Puffin will be here in a few months!
Actually, version number changed into 24.04.2 after a tiny regular upgrade which has been initiated after reading your post
# apt upgrade
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The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-6.8.0-53 linux-headers-6.8.0-53-generic
linux-image-6.8.0-53-generic linux-modules-6.8.0-53-generic
linux-modules-extra-6.8.0-53-generic linux-tools-6.8.0-53
linux-tools-6.8.0-53-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
base-files bpftrace linux-firmware linux-generic linux-headers-generic
linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev linux-tools-common
8 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Well as I understand it there isn't much change if you already was on 24.04.1 since it is just a number change after some number of updates all across the board - I think it only got delayed for direct download if you only want to clean install the newest version on your machine as stated in this article:
If you scroll down to Ubuntu-MATE; you'll note NO tests have thus far been performed (the initial notice of ISOs being available said 20250215 for all ISOs, some have required respin so dates vary; but the page I provided shows the ISO dates)
All Quality Assurance testing is welcome; but please report your testing on that tracker; so its not repeated by others.