This short article mentions basic info and links about Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system codenamed "Bionic Beaver". This article is for beginners who interested in Ubuntu but cannot find a single page mentioning all basic & necessary info about Bionic Beaver. This article is also for developers who want to help Bionic Beaver development but don't know where to go. This article may be updated later as Bionic is currently being developed for the final release next year. I hope this article helps Ubuntu 18.04 development as much as possible.
Codename
- Bionic Beaver
- Long Term Support (LTS) starting from 2018 until 2023
- Status: in development
- Mark Shuttleworth post www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1518
Download
- Daily build for Bionic Beaver http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
- Development version's ISO image name "bionic-desktop-amd64.iso"
- No ISO image for 32bit
- The ISO image of 18.04 being developed is generated every day (each called formally as a "daily build")
- You can download an ISO image and test it on your computer
Development Schedule
- Bionic planned to be released at April 2018 (month=04 year=18, hence 18.04)
- Bionic is an LTS version supported for 5 years
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseSchedule
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
- https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life
Where 18.04 Being Developed
- All developments (source code import, source code improvements, bug fixings, packages generation) are done in the Launchpad
- Launchpad https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic
- Source code https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu
Testing
- QA Testing general http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com
- QA Testing for Bionic Beaver http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/384/builds
- Documentation about testing https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/QATracker
Wallpaper Contest for 18.04
Contribute to 18.04 Development
- Create Launchpad Account https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Create_a_Launchpad_account
- Report Bugs https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
- Development mailing list #1 https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
- Development mailing list #2 https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-devel-discuss
- Development mailing list #3 https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
- Mailing list archives (to read history of developer discussions): ubuntu-devel archives, ubuntu-devel-discuss archives, ubuntu-desktop archives
- Announcement mailing list (to get official announcements of alpha, beta, and final releases) https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce
Repository
- Bionic already has an official repository
- http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic/
- Sources.list example (by me) GIST
- Mirroring guidelines https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors
- List of worldwide mirrors https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
IRC
- #ubuntu-devel @ freenode
- List of all official IRC channels https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/ChannelList