Ubuntu 18.04.2 (not-quite) RC images for testing!

[charlie]

Nio's got a really good question there. I've been testing kubuntu and 
Ubuntu Studio 19.04 for a few months now and kernel 4.19's really nice. 
I'd love to see it make its way back to 18.04. But, if not, that's ok.

On 2/5/19 2:53 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2019-02-05 kl. 11:11, skrev Adam Conrad:
>> Rolling off the presses and posting to the ISO tracker as you read this
>> are RCish (but not quite) images for the 18.04.2 point release. These
>> are definitely not the final images, but after several hiccups over the
>> weekend getting to here, I think we need to start testing in earnest
>> now, and we can re-test more lightly as the last bits land.
>>
>> The current bits known to not be final are:
>>
>>    * A ubiquity (and partman-efi) upload in proposed is still in the
>>      process of being verified to fix some bugs on EFI installs.  I'd
>>      recommend checking out that bug if you do an EFI install and be
>>      you're not running into something that's already fixed but not
>>      on these images.
>>
>>    * base-files is still sitting in proposed (meaning various parts of
>>      the OS will consider themselves "18.04.1" still), and the ISO
>>      labels still read "Beta" instead of "Release" because of the above.
>>
>> Once we're sure of the ubiquity fix, we'll respin again for that, and
>> hopefully be on the way to a final release, but PLEASE TEST NOW, so if
>> we find MORE release critical bugs, we can get them all addressed in
>> one or two iterations instead of five or ten.
>>
>> Happy testing, and here's to a smooth (fingers crossed) point release,
>>
>> ... Adam Conrad
>>
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> Many people like me are happy with the Bionic kernel (linux 4.15) 
> series in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
>
> Will installed systems stay with this kernel series (like with the 
> previous LTS releases) or will there be an automatic upgrade to the 
> Cosmic kernel series and further until the next LTS kernel series:
>
> 18.04 and 18.04.1 --> 18.04.{2,3,4,5}?
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>