Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Officially Released

prisoninmate writes: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (Long-Term Support) builds are available for download in the form of Live and Installable ISO images for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, on both 64-bit and 32-bit platforms, and that existing Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS users can now update their systems. But not only Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) users can update, as all the official flavors have been updated as well, so users of Kubuntu 14.04 LTS, Edubuntu 14.04 LTS, Xubuntu 14.04 LTS, Lubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu Studio 14.04 LTS, Mythbuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu Kylin 14.04 LTS can also update their systems today or grab the new ISOs.

Comments

existing 14.04ers

[bheckel]

I'm already on 14.04 so this was good to know: "existing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS users don't need to download anything, though, as they can update to today's 14.04.4 build using the build-in package management system, so just make sure that your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installation is up to date"

Re:existing 14.04ers

[Parker Lewis]

The proper command to update is in the LTS Enablement Stack wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel...:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-wily xserver-xorg-core-lts-wily xserver-xorg-lts-wily xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-wily xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-wily libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-wily libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-wily libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-wily:i386 libglapi-mesa-lts-wily:i386

Re:existing 14.04ers

[somenickname]

That doesn't update you to 14.04.4, that installs the backported kernel and Xorg drivers. That's not necessary if all your hardware is already supported in vanilla 14.04. If you are already running 14.04.3, the upgrade process is transparent and will happen when you next run dist-upgrade or click the "install updates" button when it next nags you. The ".4" part of the version number has no real meaning beyond, "It has been about 6 months since we last incremented the version number so, let's do so and refresh the images so people are downloading the latest bits". Since the LTS versions have 5 years of support, not refreshing the download images means that, as time goes on, the originally packages are so out of date that you have to upgrade almost all of them immediately after installing. It's really just an arbitrary timestamp rather than what most people would consider an upgrade.

Re:who cares?!

[somenickname]

15.10.4lyfe

Or at least the next 5 months.

Java 8

[cen1]

After more than a year there is still no backport of openjdk8. Looks like I'll have to wait for 16.04.

Re:Kubuntu is better than Ubuntu

[Gavagai80]

Not only friendlier, SOOOO much more powerful. Dolphin is hands down the best file manager of any distro on any OS.

Well, except for Konqueror. Dolphin still feels like a dumbed-down version of Konqueror to me.

Re:It's Funny! After The Tears.

[xvan]

Why not booting selecting the previous kernel on grub?

Re:Kubuntu is better than Ubuntu

[Anonymous Coward]

Konqueror was a great OS... it's just a shame it was missing a decent file manager.

Re:What about the server distribution?

[itsownreward]

Never mind; figured it out. I just needed to run "sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-wily" to grab the kernel.

16.04?

[AndyCanfield]

I will update to 16.04 LTS when it comes out. When? WHEN?????

Re:16.04?

[somenickname]

My guess would be the fourth month of 2016...

Re:16.04?

[AndyCanfield]

We skipped 14.04; we're still running 12.04.