The Ubuntu Studio staff is happy to announce the beta launch of Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS, codenamed “Jammy Jellyfish”.
Whereas this beta is fairly freed from any showstopper DVD construct or installer bugs, you might discover some bugs inside. This picture is, nevertheless, fairly consultant of what you will see when Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS is launched on April 21, 2022.
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS can be Ubuntu Studio’s first Lengthy-Time period Assist(LTS) launch with the KDE Plasma Desktop Setting.
Particular notes:
- As a result of change in desktop surroundings, straight upgrading to Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS from 20.04 LTS isn’t supported and won’t be supported. Nevertheless, upgrades from Ubuntu Studio 21.10 can be supported. See the Launch Notes for extra data. Anecdotally, some folks have had success upgrading from 20.04 LTS to a later model, so your mileage might range.
- The Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS disk picture (ISO) exceeds 4.0 GB and can’t be downloaded to some file programs equivalent to FAT32, and might not be readable when burned to a DVD. Because of this, we advocate making a bootable USB stick with the ISO picture.
Pictures may be obtained from this hyperlink: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/22.04/beta/
Full up to date data is accessible within the Launch Notes.
New Options
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS contains the brand new KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS desktop surroundings. This can be a stunning and purposeful improve to earlier variations, and we consider you’ll prefer it.
Studio Controls is upgraded to 2.3.0 and contains quite a few bug fixes.
OBS Studio is upgraded to model 27.2.3 and works with Wayland periods. Whereas Wayland isn’t at present the default, it’s out there as unsupported and experimental.
There are a lot of different enhancements, too quite a few to checklist right here. We encourage you to have a look across the freely-downloadable ISO picture.
Recognized Points
- Presently, the installer (Calamares) will crash when trying an set up on a manually-partitioned btrfs file system. (LP: #1966774)
- MyPaint crashes upon launching (LP: #1967163), could also be resolved after an replace.
- There are a couple of beauty points that needs to be resolved earlier than ultimate launch.
Official Ubuntu Studio launch notes may be discovered at https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-22-04-lts-release-notes/
Additional identified points, principally pertaining to the desktop surroundings, may be discovered at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JammyJellyfish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu
Moreover, the primary Ubuntu launch notes comprise extra generic points: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/jammy-jellyfish-release-notes/24668
Often Requested Questions
Q: Does KDE Plasma use extra sources than your former desktop surroundings (Xfce)?
A: In our testing, the rise in useful resource utilization is negligible, and our optimizations had been by no means tied to the desktop surroundings.
Q: Does Ubuntu Studio comprise snaps?
A: Sure. Mozilla’s distribution settlement with Canonical modified, and Ubuntu was compelled to no-longer distribute Firefox in a local .deb package deal. We’ve discovered that, after preliminary launch, Firefox performs simply in addition to the native .deb package deal did.
Q: If I set up this Beta launch, will I’ve to reinstall when the ultimate launch comes out?
A: No. In case you hold it up to date, your set up will routinely turn out to be the ultimate launch.
Q: Will you make an ISO with {my favourite desktop surroundings}?
A: To take action would require creating a wholly new taste of Ubuntu, which might require going by way of the Official Ubuntu Taste software course of. Since we’re utterly volunteer-run, we don’t have the time or sources to do that. As an alternative, we advocate you obtain the official taste for the desktop surroundings of your selection and use Ubuntu Studio Installer to get Ubuntu Studio.
Please Take a look at!
This launch we’re taking part in Ubuntu Testing Week, which begins as quickly as this beta is launched. Throughout this testing cycle we are going to work with the superb of us on the Ubuntu Hideout Discord (https://discord.gg/ubuntu). They’ve created a #testing-cycles channel in Discord and had an excellent response with customers coming ahead and serving to with testing. They’ve expressed a need to have the Ubuntu Hideout Discord group make an even better affect throughout this launch.
Whether or not or not you select to take part on Discord is as much as you. In case you do discover one thing that may be a professional bug, please open a terminal and kind “ubuntu-bug (package deal title)” to file the bug report since this collects helpful data we’d like when debugging. In case you get a popup whereas one thing is operating saying that one thing has crashed, don’t hesitate to click on on the “ship bug report” button.
