Prior to the official release on October 10, 2024, Ubuntu 24.10 goes into public beta testing.
The beta is available to give us an idea of what to expect from the final version of Ubuntu 24.10, which is just three weeks away from being released in a stable version. Ubuntu 24.10 is powered by the powerful Linux 6.11 kernel family and comes pre-installed with the recently updated GNOME 47 desktop environment.
Highlights
Highlights of Ubuntu 24.10 include an enhanced Power Profiles Manager to support better newer hardware features, especially for AMD processors, updated support for fingerprint devices, and a revised desktop installer that supports local file paths for autoinstall import.
It also promises an enhanced App Center with several improvements to the Manage page, extra patches for Mutter and GNOME Shell to improve stability and performance, and a new Security Center with an easy way to enable or disable the experimental permissions prompting feature for Home directory permissions.
For those who utilize NVIDIA graphics, the next Ubuntu 24.10 version will include an intriguing feature: on systems with NVIDIA GPUs, the Oracular Oriole will default to Wayland rather than Xorg. As usual, many defaults have been altered, primarily by more recent package versions.
GCC 14.2, GNU Binutils 2.43.1, GNU C Library 2.40, LLVM 19, Rust 1.80, Go 1.23, OpenSSL 3.3, systemd 256.5, Netplan 1.1, and.NET 8 are among the improved toolchains included with Ubuntu 24.10.
Where do we get the Image for Testing ?
Download the beta version of Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) from the official website right now if you’d like to give it a try. It is not advised to utilize this pre-release version in production settings, so please bear that in mind.
Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu MATE official flavors are all available as beta images, as are the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Cloud editions.