Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Final Beta Freeze Now in Effect, Lands September 22

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, September 21, 2016, Canonical’s Adam Conrad announced that the soon-to-be-released Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Final Beta is now in freeze stage and will arrive, as initially planned, on September 22, 2016.

However, early adopters should look for the release late Thursday or very early on Friday, September 23, because the Ubuntu developers are a little busy right now pushing last minute updates to the stable archive, and they also managed to land the new Linux 4.8 kernel packages earlier today, as reported right here on Softpedia.

“Due to a rocky start on this beta with landing a last-minute kernel and a few other hiccups, it’s possible the actual release will happen on Friday morning instead of Thursday night, but let’s … (read more)

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