22.04.1 available for download?

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 3:47 PM Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 12:22 PM Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at mtneva.com> wrote:
> >
> > I keep seeing posts here about Ubuntu 22.04.1 but when I start a download at ubuntu.com, the file I get is named ubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso (no ".1").  Is 22.04.1 not available for download yet (maybe only available through the software updater?) or am I looking in the wrong place?
>
> In case this is helpful:
>
> 22.04 and 22.04.1 are the same operating system. There is no
> difference between them. Installing from a 22.04 ISO and then doing a
> full upgrade will give you the same result as if you installed from a
> 22.04.1 ISO (once it's released) and then did a full upgrade.
>
> The .1 release is simply a snapshot of the Ubuntu package archives so
> that we can deliver more updated software on the ISO itself, so that
> any bugs that might affect a user during installation or within the
> live environment can be fixed for users who install Ubuntu in the
> future. So there's nothing all that terribly fancy about the .1
> release. To paraphrase what they say on food packaging cartons so
> often, "new packaging, same great OS!"
>
> For systems that are kept updated, there isn't really a "release" of
> 22.04.1 half so much as a "flow". It's not some major overhaul that
> could potentially turn the world upside down on your laptop (unlike
> do-release-upgrades which have a reputation for going poorly). So your
> change to 22.04.1 isn't really a new release. It's just the updates
> doing what the updates do.
>
> The place where the 22.04.1 release really matters is at the ISO file,
> which will now have all of the updated software. And... we hit a
> problem with that. Turns out something we did made Snaps go haywire if
> you installed Ubuntu with the OEM installation mode. And since the
> problem turned out to be deep inside the system, we didn't want to
> just hotfix it, so the Ubuntu Release Team chose to delay the release
> so it could be more thoroughly tested before putting it out there for
> the world to use.
>
> Ubuntu 22.04.1's ISOs are now scheduled for release on August 11,
> 2022, as stated in this announcement:
> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-22-04-1-delayed-until-august-11/29859
> Until then, you can still get the latest Ubuntu experience by
> installing Ubuntu from the 22.04 ISO and then doing a full update on
> your system (something like "sudo apt update && sudo apt -y
> full-upgrade && sudo snap refresh" should do the trick if you're
> command-line savvy, otherwise the system should give you GUI pop-ups
> for updating). Or if you'd like to wait for all of the bugfixes to
> land on the ISO, you can wait the three or so days before the release.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Aaron Rainbolt
> Lubuntu and Ubuntu Member
>
> Notice: This is not an official announcement, nor do I speak on behalf
> of Canonical or any other official Ubuntu-related entity. I'm just a
> guy who likes to help work on the OS.

Quick clarification - installing from a 22.04 ISO and doing a full
upgrade will give you *almost* the same result as installing from a
22.04.1 ISO and doing a full upgrade. A bugfix or other change may
result in a slight difference between doing these two things (for
instance there's a bug in Lubuntu and Ubuntu Studio that results in
LibreOffice always displaying in English no matter what language you
install in - this bug is fixed in 22.04.1, but installing from a 22.04
ISO and then updating won't automatically fix the problem, while the
problem won't exist when you install from a 22.04.1 ISO).