notification of new version

[Tom H]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:06 AM, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I was wondering how someone who isn't subscribed to this or a related list,
> and who doesn't spend time visiting Ubuntu websites, know that there's a
> new version released?  Update manager used to do this, but so far it has
> failed to alert me to the new version. I've had two or three normal updates
> of 10.04 stuff since 10.10 was released. Does it wait for a specified time
> after release before alerting people?

By default, LTS releases will only pormpt you to upgrade to another
LTS release. See the change to "normal releases" in
"https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-October/230732.html"