<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-post-title" style="margin-top:1.2em;margin-bottom:0.7em;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:"Droid Sans",Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:20.475px;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><a href="http://ubuntustudio.org/2019/09/ubuntu-studio-19-10-eoan-ermine-beta-released/" rel="bookmark" title="Ubuntu Studio 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Beta Released" style="border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-size:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(17,98,134)">Ubuntu Studio 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) Beta Released</a></h1><div class="gmail-post-post" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;font-family:"Droid Sans",Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.65px;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><div class="gmail-post-entry entry" style="font-size:inherit"><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:inherit">The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu Studio 19.10, codenamed Eoan Ermine.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:inherit">While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper CD build or installer bugs, you may find some bugs within. This image is, however, reasonably representative of what you will find when Ubuntu Studio 19.10 is released on October 19, 2019.</p><h2 style="margin-top:1.5em;margin-bottom:0.7em;padding-top:0.5em;border-top:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);font-weight:normal;font-size:19.11px">New Features</h2><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:inherit">In terms of new features, Ubuntu Studio 19.10 will include several audio plugins previously not included: over 90 new plugins courtesy of the <strong style="font-weight:bold;font-size:inherit"><a href="https://lsp-plug.in/" style="border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-size:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(17,98,134)">Linux Studio Plugins</a></strong><a href="https://lsp-plug.in/" style="border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-size:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(17,98,134)"> project</a> and quite a few from the <strong style="font-weight:bold;font-size:inherit">DISTRHO Plugins Framework.</strong></p><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:inherit">Another major new feature is the inclusion of <strong style="font-weight:bold;font-size:inherit"><a href="https://obsproject.com/" style="border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-size:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(17,98,134)">OBS Studio</a></strong> by default, allowing users to get up-and-running with recording and live streaming out-of-the-box. OBS Studio also includes Jack integration, allowing interfacing with DAWs such as <strong style="font-weight:bold;font-size:inherit">Ardour</strong> or using an audio plugin host such as <strong style="font-weight:bold;font-size:inherit">Carla</strong>.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:inherit">With the LADI tools and LADI Session Handler being abandoned, we have removed those tools and replaced them with <a href="https://github.com/Houston4444/RaySession" style="border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-size:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(17,98,134)"><strong style="font-weight:bold;font-size:inherit">Raysession</strong></a>, which is a lightweight session handler fully compatible with the NON Session Manager API, meaning many tools already installed are supported. User feedback has shown that Raysession, paired with <strong style="font-weight:bold;font-size:inherit">Carla</strong>, is superior to the session management previously done by LADISH.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:inherit"><strong style="font-weight:bold;font-size:inherit">Ubuntu Studio Controls</strong> has been updated with a plethora of new features, including an indicator showing the state of Jack, the ability to select other audio backends besides ALSA, the addition of more than one PulseAudio bridge, improvements to USB audio handling, the addition of button shortcuts to various audio tools,</p><h2 style="margin-top:1.5em;margin-bottom:0.7em;padding-top:0.5em;border-top:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);font-weight:normal;font-size:19.11px">Known Issues</h2><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:inherit">Official Ubuntu Studio release notes can be found at <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio" style="border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-size:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(17,98,134)">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio</a></p><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:inherit">Further known issues, mostly pertaining to the desktop environment, can be found at <a href="https://wiki.xubuntu.org/releases/19.10/release-notes" style="border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-size:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(17,98,134)">https://wiki.xubuntu.org/releases/19.10/release-notes</a></p><p style="margin-bottom:1em;font-size:inherit">Additionally, the main Ubuntu release notes contain more generic issues: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes" style="border-bottom:1px solid transparent;font-size:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(17,98,134)">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes</a></p></div></div></div></div>