Ubuntu 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' set a release date

Thus, following the roadmap, Canonical officially launched Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 'Focal Fossa' for computers, servers and clouds on April 24, including the newly developed kernel. recently, bringing support for a range of remarkable extras.

Now is the right time for Canonical to unveil the first details of the second Ubuntu release of the year - Ubuntu 20.10 - to be released in October.

According to the official new official released by Canonical today, Ubuntu 20.10 will be codenamed 'Groovy Gorilla', which is the next major update of Ubuntu after 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) and 18.04 LTS ( Bionic Beaver). Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" is expected to officially enter the testing phase this summer, while the planned feature freezing phase will be reached by the end of August. Currently, Canonical engineers are still focus on developing new features for the release, then address issues related to bug fixes and additional improvements. Therefore, it is still too early to talk about changes on Ubuntu 20.10.

Ubuntu follows the release cycle twice a year, with one released in April and the other released in October. So if everything goes as planned, Ubuntu 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla 'will be released on October 22 as per the traditional Ubuntu update roadmap.

In related news, Microsoft has just announced that it will soon release Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 as part of the next major feature update for Windows 10 next month (Windows 10 version 2004). In fact, WSL2 is already available for testing in preview builds of Windows 10 version 2004 under Windows Insider for anyone who wants to try Ubuntu 20.04, before officially releasing it to global users in the release. Update this important Windows 10.