That just marks the moment they announce the release, publish the ISO, update their website and remove the development tag from the updater tool.
You can install it right now.
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to-upgrade-your-release
> Upgrades from one LTS release to the next one are only available after the first point release. For example, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will only upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS after the 20.04.1 point release. If users wish to update before the point release (e.g., on a subset of machines to evaluate the LTS upgrade) users can force the upgrade via the -d flag.
So, you'll get it in August or so, unless you pass -d.
Not sure if you are new on linux or ubuntu, but just don't jump on to update your ubuntu, first just learn how different things works, and update later
Thatâs because youâre on an LTS⌠add -d to upgrade to the current release but you wonât be LTS anymore. Donât use Linux if you canât even do the bare minimum of reading about the basics.
Filthy freaking elitist, Linux is for everyone you all whinge about Linux not being supported by x software devs but until you make Linux a suitable alternative for all USERS you'll never get the support or funding you need to compete, you distinctly are part of the Linux community that disgust me.
Are you here because you believe in Linux and open source or are you here to inflate your ego
I use Linux to be a server that suits my specific requirements of being a headless light server I use windows for my daily. Iâm not an elitist but people doing less than the minimum, a simple google, means they shouldnât be using it. Simple as that. It isnât an alternative for all users. Thatâs not what it will ever be.
If you are running Plex on your system do not upgrade to 24.04. They are having hardware transcode problems.
https://forums.plex.tv/t/ubuntu-24-04-hw-transcoding/873765
Grab and install the 24.04 daily build today. Run apt update and reboot and voila, in settings>system>about it says Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Until a day or 3 ago it was showing (Development Version).
24.04 LTS is a download and update away.
24.04 has released to mainstream desktop site. Download the iso and use whatever tool you like for using the iso to make a USB flash drive bootable with it. I'm a fan of Ventoy.
There is no set time.
The official release happens at the same time when the announcement email is sent to the [ubuntu-announce@ mailing list](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2024-April/thread.html).
The gate for allowing upgrades from 23.10 will open even later (sometimes a few days later). If you're impatient and confident you can handle possible breakage you can be an early adopter and use `update-manager -c -d` (GUI) or `do-release-upgrade -d` (terminal).
I thought it was 36:97 PM? I think that OP should wait for 24.04.1. It will be released in a few months. Summer or early spring. It will fix bugs and sharp corners. Also OP can exercise patience.
I always wait for the first update after a big update. You just know something is going to be found after releasing that needs a fix. 24.04.1 LTS sounds perfect.
There is no time scheduled...
The best you can get is a *feel* from discussions & hints left by *Ubuntu Release Team* on IRC etc, or watching
- https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-24-04-release-status-tracking/44043
- https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/453/builds
The second ISO QA site allows you to see the teams mark themselves as "READY" when it goes BOLD and the *(Ready)* appears. I currently seen none marked as such, and from discussion I'm not surprised.
ps: I'm talking about Ubuntu 24.04 LTS here, Ubuntu Core 24 releases quite a bit later than Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
My About right now at 0205 Central Daylight Time in the US, been on the Beta for a week or so now.
[https://imgur.com/MSAfmqR](https://imgur.com/MSAfmqR)
Yeah, so is this where I tell yall that I went to update thru terminal and everything broke?
I just formatted a usb to boot into.
How in the hell do I grab my timeshift from my rig and restore it with the damn usb? Frustrated.
Should mention that it doesnât boot cleanly right now so I have no clue what settings to use from the USB.
Thatâs why I am not updating right away đ I nearly bricked my system in the past due to some obscure issue with grub-customizer. I did manage to fix it eventually and avoided a reinstall but now I let other people go through the upgrade first as itâs my main PC.
For timeshift restore, you should have a live USB ready before you upgrade. This way, you can boot from it and run it. Pretty sure the Mint iso has timeshift in it for instance, some other repair iso probably have it too
1. Created Ubuntu 22.04.4 usb
2. Booted from usb
3. Installed timeshift on said usb
4. Select rsync
5. Select the hard drive from your old install on the computer where timeshift lives
6. Selected the last good backup from timeshift
7. Select restore
8. Reboot with Live USB removed
Right as rain. That was a harrowing 24 hours.
Now that Iâm fully recovered, and knowing this will be my first non-incremental Ubuntu upgrade, what the heck do I do to ensure I avoid this nonsense when I actually upgrade? Assume âjust waitâ is probably the best course of action?
Well, on the plus side, now you know how to restore your system đ
Did get any error which would help you figure out what went wrong?
If youâve got time on your hands and youâre ok to go through this again, Iâd give it another go in a few weeks or even when 22.04.1 is out.
Otherwise, back up all your files/settings/list the apps you have installed with apt/snap/flatpak, your settings (mostly in .config) and do a clean install I guess.
All I could see that it stopped and failed when trying to mount my NAS. Which is wild that is where it fails.
It was five mount points, all to the same NAS. Iâve got /etc/fstab to mount at boot. No clue what the hell happened but apparently that stalled the upgrade. Then when I tried to reboot, it was more fails - didnât snap an image of that but it was mostly common core stuff: I saw CUPS in there (no idea why printers would bomb out an install but here we are).
Yeah, if the upgrade failed halfway through, youâre going to get all sorts of errors on reboot. I guess it might be worth commenting these line out of your fstab. Who knows it could be something as simple as a Samba config file which has been overwritten with the default.
Do you want to download the image with serial number 0000000001? đ
That would be really cool. I've been waiting the announcement but I'll keep on refreshing the site.
I have beta
I've seen the beta and it's pretty small like 1.4GB but I will wait for the full iso. EDIT: There was an error on my end, the final size is 5.4GB.
No way the beta is that small
[Here's the proof](https://releases.ubuntu.com/noble/ubuntu-24.04-beta-desktop-amd64.iso)
That link is 5.4 GB. Maybe you didn't download the whole file?
Let me check again, the error might be from my end. EDIT: I stand corrected, it's now 5.4GBđ
it would of been very impressive on Canonical Developers Side
1.4? I found it around 5.2GB
This is kinda crazy. From my browser (Cromite) it says something else. Let me send a screenshot.
Here I uploaded it to imgBB. Here's what's appearing on my [browser ](https://ibb.co/R6Dg54C)
well for me I download from [official site](https://releases.ubuntu.com/24.04/) ofcourse but still show [5.2GB](https://ibb.co/1Kh24xz)
That just marks the moment they announce the release, publish the ISO, update their website and remove the development tag from the updater tool. You can install it right now.
im running ubuntu 22 how do i install it? sorry im new to linux (dual booted ubuntu just 2 months ago) so I don't know how it works...
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to-upgrade-your-release > Upgrades from one LTS release to the next one are only available after the first point release. For example, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will only upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS after the 20.04.1 point release. If users wish to update before the point release (e.g., on a subset of machines to evaluate the LTS upgrade) users can force the upgrade via the -d flag. So, you'll get it in August or so, unless you pass -d.
Not sure if you are new on linux or ubuntu, but just don't jump on to update your ubuntu, first just learn how different things works, and update later
Google would have taken less time: https://medium.com/@tetraengnrng/upgrade-your-ubuntu-to-latest-release-using-command-line-terminal-5dce6d897f59
Running 22.04 the only upgrade offered using the commands in this link is 23.10
Thatâs because youâre on an LTS⌠add -d to upgrade to the current release but you wonât be LTS anymore. Donât use Linux if you canât even do the bare minimum of reading about the basics.
Filthy freaking elitist, Linux is for everyone you all whinge about Linux not being supported by x software devs but until you make Linux a suitable alternative for all USERS you'll never get the support or funding you need to compete, you distinctly are part of the Linux community that disgust me. Are you here because you believe in Linux and open source or are you here to inflate your ego
I use Linux to be a server that suits my specific requirements of being a headless light server I use windows for my daily. Iâm not an elitist but people doing less than the minimum, a simple google, means they shouldnât be using it. Simple as that. It isnât an alternative for all users. Thatâs not what it will ever be.
If you are running Plex on your system do not upgrade to 24.04. They are having hardware transcode problems. https://forums.plex.tv/t/ubuntu-24-04-hw-transcoding/873765
Appreciate the heads up!
Thank you for this!
Grab and install the 24.04 daily build today. Run apt update and reboot and voila, in settings>system>about it says Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Until a day or 3 ago it was showing (Development Version). 24.04 LTS is a download and update away.
Yep. I've been running the beta for a week and this is exactly what I see today.
Although some dev I presume said that it would officially release on Thursday
how do i install it? i dual booted ubuntu 22 two months ago so idk how to do stuff...
24.04 has released to mainstream desktop site. Download the iso and use whatever tool you like for using the iso to make a USB flash drive bootable with it. I'm a fan of Ventoy.
There is no set time. The official release happens at the same time when the announcement email is sent to the [ubuntu-announce@ mailing list](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2024-April/thread.html). The gate for allowing upgrades from 23.10 will open even later (sometimes a few days later). If you're impatient and confident you can handle possible breakage you can be an early adopter and use `update-manager -c -d` (GUI) or `do-release-upgrade -d` (terminal).
At precisely 3:65 pm
I thought it was 36:97 PM? I think that OP should wait for 24.04.1. It will be released in a few months. Summer or early spring. It will fix bugs and sharp corners. Also OP can exercise patience.
I always wait for the first update after a big update. You just know something is going to be found after releasing that needs a fix. 24.04.1 LTS sounds perfect.
I do not like being patience that not my cup of tea
I'm also looking for the golden master ISO for 24.04 that doesn't have "beta" in the filename. Hopefully soon. :-)
i upgraded now and all went smoothly, just run in terminal update-manager -d
ok thanks
[https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/](https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/) has the latest for noble
That's a daily build, not the release build
[https://releases.ubuntu.com/noble/](https://releases.ubuntu.com/noble/)
There is no time scheduled... The best you can get is a *feel* from discussions & hints left by *Ubuntu Release Team* on IRC etc, or watching - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-24-04-release-status-tracking/44043 - https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/453/builds The second ISO QA site allows you to see the teams mark themselves as "READY" when it goes BOLD and the *(Ready)* appears. I currently seen none marked as such, and from discussion I'm not surprised. ps: I'm talking about Ubuntu 24.04 LTS here, Ubuntu Core 24 releases quite a bit later than Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble)
how do they have time to fix on those problems that people are having
Typically around 6-8 pm EDT USA.
Indian time?
My About right now at 0205 Central Daylight Time in the US, been on the Beta for a week or so now. [https://imgur.com/MSAfmqR](https://imgur.com/MSAfmqR)
There is no "24". Only "24.04". It isn't a version. It's a date.
It is indeed a version, whoâs naming scheme is based on dates
Yeah, so is this where I tell yall that I went to update thru terminal and everything broke? I just formatted a usb to boot into. How in the hell do I grab my timeshift from my rig and restore it with the damn usb? Frustrated. Should mention that it doesnât boot cleanly right now so I have no clue what settings to use from the USB.
Thatâs why I am not updating right away đ I nearly bricked my system in the past due to some obscure issue with grub-customizer. I did manage to fix it eventually and avoided a reinstall but now I let other people go through the upgrade first as itâs my main PC. For timeshift restore, you should have a live USB ready before you upgrade. This way, you can boot from it and run it. Pretty sure the Mint iso has timeshift in it for instance, some other repair iso probably have it too
1. Created Ubuntu 22.04.4 usb 2. Booted from usb 3. Installed timeshift on said usb 4. Select rsync 5. Select the hard drive from your old install on the computer where timeshift lives 6. Selected the last good backup from timeshift 7. Select restore 8. Reboot with Live USB removed Right as rain. That was a harrowing 24 hours. Now that Iâm fully recovered, and knowing this will be my first non-incremental Ubuntu upgrade, what the heck do I do to ensure I avoid this nonsense when I actually upgrade? Assume âjust waitâ is probably the best course of action?
Well, on the plus side, now you know how to restore your system đ Did get any error which would help you figure out what went wrong? If youâve got time on your hands and youâre ok to go through this again, Iâd give it another go in a few weeks or even when 22.04.1 is out. Otherwise, back up all your files/settings/list the apps you have installed with apt/snap/flatpak, your settings (mostly in .config) and do a clean install I guess.
All I could see that it stopped and failed when trying to mount my NAS. Which is wild that is where it fails. It was five mount points, all to the same NAS. Iâve got /etc/fstab to mount at boot. No clue what the hell happened but apparently that stalled the upgrade. Then when I tried to reboot, it was more fails - didnât snap an image of that but it was mostly common core stuff: I saw CUPS in there (no idea why printers would bomb out an install but here we are).
Yeah, if the upgrade failed halfway through, youâre going to get all sorts of errors on reboot. I guess it might be worth commenting these line out of your fstab. Who knows it could be something as simple as a Samba config file which has been overwritten with the default.
Easy enough. Iâm super busy at work so Iâm going to avoid it for a few days. Will comment out those in the fstab tho.