[ubuntu-studio-users] Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS Beta Released

[Erich Eickmeyer]

The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu
Studio 22.04 LTS, codenamed “Jammy Jellyfish”.

While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper DVD build or
installer bugs, you may find some bugs within. This image is, however,
reasonably representative of what you will find when Ubuntu Studio 22.04
LTS is released on October 22, 2021.

Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS will be Ubuntu Studio’s first Long-Term
Support(LTS) release with the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment.
Special notes:

   - Due to the change in desktop environment, directly upgrading to Ubuntu
   Studio 22.04 LTS from 20.04 LTS is not supported and will not be supported.
    However, upgrades from Ubuntu Studio 21.10 will be supported. See the
   Release Notes for more information. Anecdotally, some people have had
   success upgrading from 20.04 LTS to a later version, so your mileage may
   vary.
   - The Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS disk image (ISO) exceeds 4.0 GB and cannot
   be downloaded to some file systems such as FAT32, and may not be readable
   when burned to a DVD. For this reason, we recommend creating a bootable
   USB stick
   <https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#1-overview> with
   the ISO image.

Images can be obtained from this link:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/22.04/beta/

Full updated information is available in the Release Notes
<https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-21-10-release-notes/>.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GroovyGorilla/Beta/UbuntuStudio>
New Features

Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS includes the new KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS desktop
environment. This is a beautiful and functional upgrade to previous
versions, and we believe you will like it.

Studio Controls is upgraded to 2.3.0 and includes numerous bug fixes.

OBS Studio is upgraded to version 27.2.3 and works with Wayland sessions.
While Wayland is not currently the default, it is available as unsupported
and experimental.

There are many other improvements, too numerous to list here. We encourage
you to take a look around the freely-downloadable ISO image.
Known Issues

   - At this time, the installer (Calamares) will crash when attempting an
   installation on a manually-partitioned btrfs file system. (LP: #1966774
   <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1966774>)
   - MyPaint crashes upon launching (LP: #1967163
   <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1967163>), may be resolved after an update.
   - There are a few cosmetic issues thatshould be resolved before final
   release.

Official Ubuntu Studio release notes can be found at
https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-22-04-lts-release-notes/

Further known issues, mostly pertaining to the desktop environment, can be
found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JammyJellyfish/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ImpishIndri/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu>

Additionally, the main Ubuntu release notes contain more generic issues:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/jammy-jellyfish-release-notes/24668
Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does KDE Plasma use more resources than your former desktop environment
(Xfce)?
A: In our testing, the increase in resource usage is negligible, and our
optimizations were never tied to the desktop environment.

Q: Does Ubuntu Studio contain snaps?
A: Yes. Mozilla’s distribution agreement with Canonical changed, and Ubuntu
was forced to no-longer distribute Firefox in a native .deb package. We
have found that, after initial launch, Firefox performs just as well as the
native .deb package did.

Q: If I install this Beta release, will I have to reinstall when the final
release comes out?
A: No. If you keep it updated, your installation will automatically become
the final release.
Please Test!

This release we are participating in Ubuntu Testing Week, which begins as
soon as this beta is released. During this testing cycle we will work with
the amazing folks at the Ubuntu Hideout Discord
(https://discord.gg/ubuntu). They
have created a #testing-cycles channel in Discord and had a very
good response with users coming forward and helping with testing. They
have expressed a desire to have the Ubuntu Hideout Discord community make
an even greater impact during this release.

Whether or not you choose to participate on Discord is up to you. If you do
find something that is a legitimate bug, please open a terminal and type
“ubuntu-bug (package name)” to file the bug report since this collects
valuable information we need when debugging. If you get a popup while
something is running saying that something has crashed, don’t hesitate to
click on the “send bug report” button.
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