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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Ubuntu Studio team is
pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu Studio 18.10 “Cosmic
Cuttlefish”. As a regular release, this version of Ubuntu
Studio will be supported for 9 months.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Since it’s just out, you
may experience some issues, so you might want to wait a bit
before upgrading. Please see the<span> </span><a
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CosmicCuttlefish/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio"
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complete list of changes and known issues.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://ubuntustudio.org/download/" style="margin: 0px;
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text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 98, 134);">Click Here
to Download Ubuntu Studio 18.10</a></p>
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baseline; text-align: left;">Major Upgrade to Ubuntu Studio
Controls</h2>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ubuntu Studio Controls has
historically been the app to run to get initial audio
configuration set for your system. This release, Ubuntu Studio
Controls has undergone a major rewrite, and has the following
features:</p>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Option for changing the CPU governor</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Configuration of JACK, including any
attached USB audio devices</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Configuration of the JACK-PulseAudio
Bridge</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Configuration of the JACK-ALSA MIDI
Bridge</li>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ubuntu Studio Controls
now, for the first time ever for any JACK configuration GUI,
configures JACK to automatically detect hot-plugged USB audio
devices and allows you to use more than one audio device at a
time. This is something you will find in no other such
utility.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Future plans for Ubuntu
Studio Controls includes configuration of WACOM Tablets, which
is something currently not available in our default Xfce
desktop environment.</p>
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inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><img class="wp-image-1493
alignnone"
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alt="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" width="306" height="236"> <img
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baseline; text-align: left;">Inclusion of PikoPixel</h1>
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inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://twilightedge.com/mac/pikopixel/" style="margin:
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vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(17, 98, 134);">PikoPixel</a> is an easy-to-use
application for drawing & editing pixel-art.</p>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Unlimited undo</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Supports multiple layers</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Customizable canvas background and
grid patterns</li>
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0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Hotkey-activated popup panels</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Export upscaled images</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;">Supports linear (gamma-correct)
color blending</li>
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baseline; text-align: left;">Other Changes</h1>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Among those applications
upgraded in this release is GIMP 2.10, which saw its release
shortly before the release of Ubuntu Studio 18.04. Due to a
library conflict between GIMP 2.10 and MyPaint, we had to make
the hard decision to drop MyPaint from the default
installation of Ubuntu Studio beginning in 18.10, citing other
tools, such as Krita, as filling a similar role in graphical
art production. As such, if both are installed and you wish to
upgrade to Ubuntu Studio 18.10, <strong style="margin: 0px;
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inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit;
font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">you must
uninstall GIMP or MyPaint for the upgrade to be successful. </strong>We
apologize for this inconvenience. At this time, we are waiting
for the upstream developers of MyPaint to release a new
version based on libmypaint 1.3 before both can be
co-installable again.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Information on newer
packages can be found in the<span> </span><a
href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio"
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baseline; text-align: left;">Regarding Availability of
Additional Desktop Environments</h1>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Since Ubuntu Studio is the
only official flavor of Ubuntu not tied to a desktop
environment, we thought it would be a good idea to attempt to
offer more desktop environments for Ubuntu Studio and provide
multiple ISO downloads. However, since the Ubuntu
infrastructure for flavors is based on the desktop environment
per flavor structure, we found this to be time and effort
prohibitive. As such, we have decided to abandon this idea.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">However, it has also been
asked how it might be possible to add Ubuntu Studio to an
existing Ubuntu install. As such, our new goal is to make a
single package to install which starts that process on any
Ubuntu or flavor thereof. We hope this lands in Ubuntu Studio
19.04. This means you will be able to install any flavor of
Ubuntu and add Ubuntu Studio on to it, allowing you to work in
your favorite desktop environment while having all of the
benefits of Ubuntu Studio.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Future goals include
providing the optional ability to re-brand your installed
Ubuntu flavor to Ubuntu Studio along with the under-the-hood
configurations. Yet another, distant goal is to allow you to
install your preferred desktop environment at install time
from the Xfce-based Live CD so long as you have an active
Internet connection. Since these are distant goals, they are
not completely solidified and are subject to change.</p>
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baseline; text-align: left;">Want to help out?</h1>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ubuntu Studio is
maintained by a very small team and we are actively seeking
new contributors. We are looking for<span> </span><strong
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Even if you are interested in contributing outside these
areas, please do not hesitate to reach out. Your contribution
is precious regardless of your field of activity. We are open
to volunteers with all expertise levels. Just head over to our<span> </span><a
href="http://ubuntustudio.org/contribute/" style="margin:
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out how to get started.</p>
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baseline; text-align: left;">Found a bug?</h1>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Taking the time to report
bugs makes a huge difference; it’s the first step towards
improvement! Clear and specific bug reports is the best way to
get attention to a problem that needs fixing. The easiest way
to create a bug report is with the terminal.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Open one up and type:<span> </span><em
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<package></em></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Read more about this at<span> </span><a
href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs"
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baseline; text-align: left;">Special Thanks For This Release</h2>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
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list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant:
inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Erich Eickmeyer</strong>,
Council Chair, Communications, Social Media, Packaging,
Documentation</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant:
inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Len Ovens</strong>,
Council Member, Ubuntu Studio Controls main contributor,
coding</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant:
inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Set Hallstrom</strong>,
Council Member, Social Media, Guidance</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant:
inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Eylul Dogruel</strong>,
Artwork, Documentation, Communications</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant:
inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas Pfundt</strong>,
Council Member, Documentation</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant:
inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Peter Reppert</strong>,
Ubuntu Studio Audio Handbook author</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant:
inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ross Gammon</strong>,
Council Member, Guidance, Packaging, Sage Wisdom</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant:
inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Simon Quigley</strong>,
Package Uploading and Guidance</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border:
0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant:
inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Ubuntu Studio
Wallpaper Contest Winners</strong></li>
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0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
list-style-type: disc;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding:
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inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit;
font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family:
inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Our many testers and
help along the way</strong></li>
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