What time of day will 10.04 come out?

[NMFTM]

Not that I'm impatient or anything, but does anyone know?

[Warpnow]

I don't think it is set or uniform.

[beetleman64]

I seem to remember that previous versions were out by around 3:30pm BST, so it'll probably be in the morning sometime.

[cariboo]

It will be released when it's ready, and not a minute sooner. :) If you really want to know when it is released you can subscribe to the Ubuntu Announcements (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce) mailing list.

[detroit/zero]

It will be released when it's ready, and not a minute sooner.
As opposed to the last five versions?

That's laughable, and not in a good way. KK was less than 24 hours old and when I booted it for the first time to the installed environment, there was already 60+MB worth of updates to download and install.

[NMFTM]

It will be released when it's ready, and not a minute sooner.
Considering that Ubuntu is on a strict 6 month release cycle that's only been deviated from once I was kind of under the impression that 99.99999% of everything that's needed worked on has already been worked on and they're just waiting until the official release date as a formality.

[23meg]

Considering that Ubuntu is on a strict 6 month release cycle that's only been deviated from once I was kind of under the impression that 99.99999% of everything that's needed worked on has already been worked on and they're just waiting until the official release date as a formality.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseProcess will give you some insights on what happens during the days leading to the release. Note that multiple people working in different timezones perform these steps, thus there's no way to tell precisely what hour of the day it will be out.

[adeypoop]

Why wait? download the beta. you know you want to ;-)
I've been using it for a couple of weeks already, it is great!

[tstrike]

Why wait? download the beta. you know you want to ;-)
I've been using it for a couple of weeks already, it is great!

The beta is *singsong* AWESOME!!! This has to be the most stablest beta I have ever tested... EVER.

[MCVenom]

Why wait? download the -beta- release candidate. you know you want to ;-)
I've been using it for a couple of weeks already, it is great!

Just fixed it a bit! :p

[cariboo]

As opposed to the last five versions?

That's laughable, and not in a good way. KK was less than 24 hours old and when I booted it for the first time to the installed environment, there was already 60+MB worth of updates to download and install.

So what's your point? Are you on limited bandwidth?

[23meg]

As opposed to the last five versions?

That's laughable, and not in a good way. KK was less than 24 hours old and when I booted it for the first time to the installed environment, there was already 60+MB worth of updates to download and install.

The reason you get lots of updates right after release is that the Final Freeze (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FinalFreeze) period leading to the release is very restrictive in terms of what updates can go through, as well as developers and the release team being swamped with work right before release, thus some updates are withheld until release even though a fix may be available, after which they go through as stable release updates (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates).

This post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9149855&postcount=8) goes into a little bit further detail on that.

[daveysan]

I played with the beta and had to double take. I installed in VirtualBox and then booted - while it was booting I went to make a coffee. I didn't get as far as turning the coffee machine on before I heard the booted sound! I did a quick indicative comparison against my Hardy Heron VM.

Lucid: 15 seconds.
Hardy: 2 minutes 10 seconds.

Am I dreaming? If I wore a hat, I'd take it off to the developers. Nice one guys. Oh - and pretty stable too - a couple of crashes in the screen saver was all I noticed.
:KS