To check the support status of your Ubuntu system: $ ubuntu-security-statusįor earlier versions of Ubuntu, use this command: $ ubuntu-support-status They all include additional security support which is available with Extended Security Maintenance (ESM).
#Happy summer walkthrough 3.8 software
The Snap Store has now replaced Ubuntu Software Center as the default software for installing and managing packages and snaps.Ģ0.04 LTS ships with Python 3.8 in the base system and the remaining packages in Ubuntu which require 2.7 have been updated to use usr/bin/python2 as their interpreter and /usr/bin/python is not present by default on clean installations.Īs hinted above, the maintenance updates for Focal Fossa (Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core) will be provided for 5 years until April 2025 while the remaining flavors will be supported for 3 years. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS comes with a renewed state-of-the-art toolchain included with new upstream releases of Glibc 2.31, OpenJDK 11, Python 3.8.2, and other languages. In addition to that, users can now configure Virtual Functions for individual SR-IOV physical functions which can be set as any other networking device, and set hardware VLAN VF filtering. Ubuntu 20.04’s netplan.io ships with several new features including support for GSM modems via the NetworkManager backend via the modems section, the ability to set ipv6-address-generation for the NetworkManager backend and emit-lldp for networkd, and the ability to add WiFi flags for bssid/band/channel settings. Ubuntu Focal Fossa ships with ZFS 0.8.3 which brings many features such as device removal, Pool TRIM, sequential scrub and resilver (performance), and native encryption (with hardware acceleration enabled by default).
If you’re familiar with RISC-V architecture, then you may be happy to know that Focal Fossa now ships with RISC-V image for SiFive HiFive Unleased and it can also be used as a VM with QEMU on any machine running Ubuntu 20.04.
Notable improvements include support for new hardware including AMD Navi 12 and 14 GPUs, Intel Comet Lake CPUs and initial Tigae Lake platforms, Arcturus and Renoir APUs alongside Navi 12 + Arcturus power features.ĮxFAT file systems are now supported, WireGuard VPN support is built-in, lockdown in integrity mode is enabled, and support for virtio-fs for file sharing filesystems without virtualized guests and fs-verify for detecting file modifications has been added.
#Happy summer walkthrough 3.8 series
Kernel Upgradesįirstly, Ubuntu 20.04 is based on the Linux kernel release series 5.4 which is long-term support. If you work a lot with graphics then there are happy days for you because GNOME 3.36 and later now enjoy 10-bit deep colour support and X11 fractional scaling.Ĭoncerning major default apps, Ubuntu 20.04 ships with updated versions of Mesa OpenGL stack, PulseAudio, Firefox, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, and BlueZ.