Software-update: Ubuntu 14.10

Versie 14.10 van Ubuntu Linux is uitgekomen. Tweemaal per jaar verschijnt er een nieuwe versie en net als bij de Catalyst-drivers van AMD vormen het jaar en de maand van uitgave het versienummer. Versie 14.10 heeft codenaam Utopic Unicorn meegekregen en draait op Linux Kernel 3.16. Veel veranderingen zijn er echter niet aangebracht. Canonical heeft zich met deze release voornamelijk gericht op op het gladstrijken van plooien en verhelpen van kleine problemen. Tweakers heeft versie 14.10 uitgebreid bekeken en onze bevindingen kunnen in dit artikel worden nagelezen.

Ubuntu Desktop
The general theme for 14.10 on the desktop is one of bug fixes and incremental quality improvements.

Unity
Unity has had many bugs fixed and features improved support for High-DPI displays.

General
Firefox is updated to version 33 and Chromium is updated to version 38.
Gtk updated to version 3.12. Qt updated to version 5.3.
Support for IPP Everywhere printers is added, and printers shared from Ubuntu can emulate IPP Everywhere printers. IPP printers require no configuration under Ubuntu. More information about IPP Everywhere is available here.

LibreOffice
LibreOffice 4.3 brings a lot of improvements including improved PDF support, new features in Writer, Calc and Impress (word processor, spreadsheet and presentations). Full details here.

Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre
This new tool allows developers to quickly and easily setup a variety of development environments on their Ubuntu Desktop. More information here.

Xorg
With Xorg 1.16, we have better support for non-pci devices. Xephyr now supports DRI3. The mesa 10.3 update has support for AMD Hawaii GPU's, improved support for dri3 offloading, the freedreno open source driver, and preliminary support for using nouveau on maxwell devices.

Versienummer	14.10
Releasestatus	Final
Besturingssystemen	Linux
Website	Canonical
Download	http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Bestandsgrootte	1,10GB
Licentietype	Voorwaarden (GNU/BSD/etc.)

Reacties (4)

[FireDrunk]

Voor Ubuntu 14.10 Server Editie zijn er de volgende changes:

OpenStack 2014.1

Ubuntu 14.10 includes the OpenStack 2014.2 (Juno) release of the following projects in Ubuntu main:

OpenStack Compute - Nova
OpenStack Identity - Keystone
OpenStack Imaging - Glance
OpenStack Block Storage - Cinder
OpenStack Networking - Neutron
OpenStack Object Storage - Swift
OpenStack Telemetry - Ceilometer
OpenStack Orchestration - Heat
OpenStack Dashboard - Horizon
WARNING: Upgrading an OpenStack deployment is a non-trivial process and care should be taken to plan and test upgrade procedures which will be specific to each OpenStack deployment.

Make sure you read the OpenStack Charm Release Notes for more information.

Libvirt 1.2.8

Containers launched with libvirt-lxc can now be apparmor-protected.

Libvirt now provides cgmanager support allowing use of libvirt inside containers without cgroups mounted.

Migration of pc-1.0 VMs from a 12.04 host must be done first to a 14.04 host, to the pc-1.0-precise machine type. From there, they may be converted to a new machine type, such as pc-i440fx-trusty, and migrated to a 14.10 host.

Qemu 2.1

Kvm is now supported on the ppc64le architecture.

Cgmanager 0.32

Cgmanager now has a new compiled client tool, and supports new methods including Prune, ListTasksRecursive, and ListControllers. It now supports the features needed for systemd-shim to properly close sessions.

LXC 1.1

This includes container checkpoint and restart as a tech preview.

cloud-init 0.7.6

Cloud-init 0.7.6 brings several bug fixes along with support for booting ubuntu with systemd. Also featured is improvements when using vendor-data on OpenStack.

bcache

bcache support is now included as a technology preview, enabled in the kernel and via the userspace package bcache-tools, but without installer support. We highly recommend that you take full system backups before experimenting with it. It has been enabled with a focus on server use cases. Some desktop use cases should also work, but we have observed some issues when attempting to combine bcache use with LVM and md.

Juju

Juju, the service orchestration tool for Ubuntu, has been updated to the latest current stable release, 1.20.10. See the upstream release notes for full details of all new features and improvements in this release.

Docker

Docker 1.2 is released in Utopic. For the absolute latest upstream version of Docker, please follow the instructions here https://docs.docker.com/installation/ubuntulinux/ titled "If you'd like to try the latest version of Docker"

MAAS

MAAS has been updated to the latest current beta release, 1.7-beta8. Many new features have been added, and lots of bugfixes too. Full release notes will be available shortly.

[Reactie gewijzigd door FireDrunk op 23 juli 2024 03:21]

[Xantios]

Yes, deze zocht ik dus :-)
Gebruik zelf geen ubuntu, maar vind het wel leuk om zo afentoe te kijken wat ze daar nou eigenlijk aan het doen zijn met hun servers.

Waarom rept tweakers eigenlijk met geen woord over de server editie? of zie ik dat nou gewoon compleet over het hoofd ?

[sneep]

Omdat de eerstvolgende nuttige release voor het gebruik op een server 16.04 LTS wordt? 14.10/15.04 en 15.10 zijn voor productieomgevingen niet interessant genoeg.