Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Beta released: based on the Linux release series 5.3
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the beta pre-release of the Ubuntu 19.10 Desktop, Server, and Cloud products.
Codenamed “Eoan Ermine”, 19.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
This beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, but also the Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu flavours.
The beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 19.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 17th, 2019.
Changelog
Updated Packages
Linux kernel 🐧
Ubuntu 19.10 is based on the Linux release series 5.3.
Toolchain Upgrades 🛠️
Ubuntu 19.04 comes with refreshed state-of-the-art toolchain including new upstream releases of glibc 2.30, ☕ OpenJDK 11, rustc 1.37, and updated GCC 8.3, optional GCC 9, 🐍 Python 3.7.3 as default, 💎 ruby 2.5.5, php 7.2.15, 🐪 perl 5.28.1, golang 1.10.4. There are new improvements on the cross-compilers front as well with POWER and AArch64 toolchain enabled to cross-compile for ARM, S390X and RISCV64 targets.
Ubuntu Server
qemu
libvirt
OpenStack Train
Ubuntu 19.10 includes the latest OpenStack release, Train, including the following components:
OpenStack Identity – Keystone
OpenStack Imaging – Glance
OpenStack Block Storage – Cinder
OpenStack Compute – Nova
OpenStack Networking – Neutron
OpenStack Telemetry – Ceilometer, Aodh, Gnocchi, and Panko
OpenStack Orchestration – Heat
OpenStack Dashboard – Horizon
OpenStack Object Storage – Swift
OpenStack Database as a Service – Trove
OpenStack DNS as a Service – Designate
OpenStack Bare-metal – Ironic
OpenStack Filesystem – Manila
OpenStack Key Manager – Barbican
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 about how to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack using Juju.
s390x
IBM Z and LinuxONE / s390x-specific enhancements (since 19.04) include:
Known issues
As is to be expected, with any release, there are some significant known bugs that users may run into with this release of Ubuntu 19.10. The ones we know about at this point (and some of the workarounds), are documented here so you don’t need to spend time reporting these bugs again:
