upgrading to 20.04

[stan]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 08:05:21PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:44:39 -0400, Peter Teuben wrote:
> >On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 13:43 stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I tried to upgrade a freshly installed 18.04 instance to 20.04, and
> >> it appears that that option is not yet supported. Is this correct?
> >>
> >> I am not n a big rush, just seems odd.
> >>
> >Takes a few days I heard.
> 
> It's neither odd, nor does it takes just a few days.
> 
> You could enforce an upgrade using the --devel-release option.
> 
> An upgrade from one LTS to another LTS release is provided by the first
> dot release, IOW there will be no automatic update before 20.04.1 is
> released, to ensure that there are no or at least less issues, since
> the purpose of LTS releases is not to get the latest and greatest, but
> to keep the install as stable as possible.
> 

Thanks for the input.

Slight edit of original to lower the risk of political firestorm :-)



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