Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS Has Been Delayed Once Again, Should Land on Monday Now

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Canonical announced today that they are not ready to release the long-anticipated Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system because there are still some minor issues that need to be addressed.

By our count, this is the third time Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS is delayed, and it now looks like it will arrive on Moday at the latest, if no other issues are discovered until then, of course. Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS will be the second point release of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) series and it’s the first to come with a HWE (Hardware Enablement) stack from Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), which means that it will use its Linux 4.8 kernel and graphics stack.

“There are still some bits I need to tidy up to get server images going, but that shouldn’t stop people from testing the desktop images,” said Adam Conrad, Software Engineer at Canonical, in a mailing list announcement. “I think it’s p… (read more)

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