Ubuntu 24.04.2 is here...?

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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!

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$ cat /etc/*release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS"
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Actually, version number changed into 24.04.2 after a tiny regular upgrade which has been initiated after reading your post :slight_smile:

# apt upgrade
...
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:

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I wasn't updated but ran a quick update manually and now I am updated to 24.04.2

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Yes, that's what I was talking about on the second paragraph. Looking forward to the release next week!

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The images are available for QA-testing.

https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/465/builds

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.

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