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=== Network configuration === '''ifupdown''' has been deprecated in favor of '''netplan''' and is no longer present on new installs. The installer will generate a configuration file for netplan in /etc/netplan, which will set up the system to configure the network via systemd-networkd or NetworkManager. Desktop users will see their system fully managed via NetworkManager as it has been the case in previous releases, but Server users now have their network devices managed via systemd-networkd on new installs. This only applies to new installations. Given that ifupdown is no longer installed by default, its commands will not be present: '''ifup''' and '''ifdown''' are thus unavailable, replaced by '''ip link set $device up''' and '''ip link set $device down'''. The '''networkctl''' command is also available for users to see a summary of the network devices. '''networkctl status'' will display the current global state of IP addresses on the system; and '''networkctl status $device''' can display the details specific to a network device. For more information about netplan, please refer to the manual page using the '''man 5 netplan''' command. |
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=== Network configuration === ifupdown has been deprecated in favor of netplan and is no longer present on new installs. The installer will generate a configuration file for netplan in /etc/netplan, which will set up the system to configure the network via systemd-networkd. This only applies to new installations. Given that ifupdown is no longer installed by default, its commands will not be available: ''ifup'' and ''ifdown'' are thus unavailable, replaced by ''ip link set $device up'' and ''ip link set $device down''. The ''networkctl'' command is also available for users to see a summary of the network devices. ''networkctl status'' will display the current global state of IP addresses on the system; and ''networkctl status $device'' can display the details specific to a network device. |
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Introduction
These release notes for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu 17.10 and its flavors.
Support lifespan
Ubuntu 17.10 will be supported for 9 months until July 2018. If you need Long Term Support, it is recommended you use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS instead.
Official flavour release notes
Find the links to release notes for official flavors here.
Get Ubuntu 17.10
Download Ubuntu 17.10
Images can be downloaded from a location near you.
You can download ISOs and flashable images from:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/17.10/ (Ubuntu Desktop and Server)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/17.10/ (Less Popular Ubuntu Images)
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/artful/current/ (Ubuntu Cloud Images)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/17.10/ (Ubuntu Netboot)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/17.10/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/17.10/ (Lubuntu and Lubuntu Alternate)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu-next/releases/17.10/ (Lubuntu Next)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-budgie/releases/17.10/ (Ubuntu Budgie)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/17.10/ (Ubuntu Kylin)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/17.10/ (Ubuntu MATE)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/17.10/ (Ubuntu Studio)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/17.10/ (Xubuntu)
As fixes will be included in new images between now and release, any daily cloud image from today or later (i.e. a serial of 20170926 or higher) should be considered a beta image. Bugs found should be filed against the appropriate packages or, failing that, the cloud-images project in Launchpad.
Upgrading from Ubuntu 17.04
To upgrade on a desktop system:
Open the "Software & Updates" Setting in System Settings.
- Select the 3rd Tab called "Updates".
- Set the "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version" dropdown menu to "For any new version".
- Press Alt+F2 and type in "update-manager -cd" (without the quotes) into the command box.
- Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '17.10' is available.
- If not you can also use "/usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/check-new-release-gtk"
- Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.
To upgrade on a server system:
Install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed.
Make sure the Prompt line in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades is set to normal.
Launch the upgrade tool with the command sudo do-release-upgrade -d.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Note that the server upgrade will use GNU screen and automatically re-attach in case of dropped connection problems.
For other changes since 16.04 LTS, see the 17.04 Release Notes and 16.10 Release Notes.
Updated Packages
Linux kernel 4.13
Ubuntu 17.10 is based on the Linux release series 4.13.
Network configuration
ifupdown has been deprecated in favor of netplan and is no longer present on new installs. The installer will generate a configuration file for netplan in /etc/netplan, which will set up the system to configure the network via systemd-networkd or NetworkManager. Desktop users will see their system fully managed via NetworkManager as it has been the case in previous releases, but Server users now have their network devices managed via systemd-networkd on new installs. This only applies to new installations.
Given that ifupdown is no longer installed by default, its commands will not be present: ifup and ifdown are thus unavailable, replaced by ip link set $device up and ip link set $device down.
The networkctl command is also available for users to see a summary of the network devices. networkctl status will display the current global state of IP addresses on the system; and networkctl status $device can display the details specific to a network device. For more information about netplan, please refer to the manual page using the
The Ubuntu Desktop now uses On supported systems, Window control buttons are back on the Apps provided by GNOME have been updated to Printer configuration is now done in the Settings app: Choose Devices and then Printers. The tool uses the same algorithms for identifying printers and choosing drivers as the formerly used system-config-printer, and makes full use of driverless printing to support as many printers as possible. Note that some options, like printer sharing, are missing. To reach them, click the Additional Printer Settings… button at the end of the list of available print queues and you get good old system-config-printer. The The default on screen keyboard is GNOME's The System Log has been replaced by The Install
Qemu has been updated to the 2.10 release. Since the last version was 2.8 see both Changelogs of 2.9 and 2.10 for details. Among many other changes there is one that might need follow on activity by the user/admin: Image locking is added and enabled by default. This generally makes execution much safer, but can break some old use cases that now explicitly have to opt-in to ignore/share the locks by tools and subcommands using the --force-share option or the share-rw dqev property.
Libvirt has been updated to version 3.6. See the Changelogs for details.
Ubuntu 17.10 includes the latest release of DPDK that has stable updates: 17.05.2. See the Release Notes as well as the stable release announcement stable .1 announcement stable .2 and for more detail. This made it possible to integrate Open vSwitch 2.8.
Open vSwitch has been updated to 2.8. Please read the release notes for more detail. Remember that since version 2.7 you need to specify dpdk devices via dpdk-devargs.
The DNS server bind9 was updated to include the new Key Signing Key (KSK) that was published on July 11, 2017. Starting on October 11, 2017, that key will sign the root zone key, which in turn is used to sign the actual root zones. For more details, visit: Existing installations of bind9 should automatically update their anchor keys following RFC 5011, but new installations after the rollover event on October 11th, 2017, will need this new package or have the key updated manually.
The version was updated to 17.1. Notable new features include:
The version was updated to 0.1.0~bzr519-0ubuntu1. Notable new features include:
Samba was updated to version 4.6.7. Noteable changes in the 4.6.x series include: The OS Version for the printing server has been increased to announce Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 ID mapping checks added to the testparm(1) tool. There are some ID mapping backends which are not allowed to be used for the default backend. Winbind will no longer start if an invalid backend is configured as the default backend.
As is to be expected, with any release, there are some significant known bugs that users may run into with this release of Ubuntu 17.10. The ones we know about at this point (and some of the workarounds), are documented here so you don't need to spend time reporting these bugs again:
Some admin utilities will not work with GNOME on Wayland since the apps have not been adapted to use PolicyKit to only use admin privileges for the specific functions needed. Also, some screenshot and screencast apps and all remote desktop server apps do not currently work on GNOME on Wayland. As a workaround, you can use the Ubuntu on Xorg session. Exiting the live session may get stuck with a "A start job is running for " error. You may need to forcefully power off the computer if you see this. (1706939) The Dock and Appindicator system extensions appear to be Off in tools like GNOME Tweaks. (They are on but cannot be disabled because they are system extensions for the Ubuntu session.) (1718850) Mouse & Touchpad settings and behavior will not work right in the Ubuntu desktop if xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is installed. Some desktop environments such as Unity require xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. (1686081) The screen reader is not working for the Ubuntu installer (1719995) Tracker is not installed by default. When installed, you must log out and log back in for the tracker service to start (1697769)
On s390x architecture, in KVM virtual machines interface names are not preserved on upgrade, and new predictable interface names are used. This will result in lack of network connectivity due to incorrect names in /etc/network/interfaces. An upgrade SRU to preserve ethX interface names is being prepared. (1682437) Partitioning step allows to configure LVM across multiple devices without requiring to setup a separate /boot partition. This may lead to failure to install the bootloader at the end of the installation, and failures to boot the resultant installations. (1680101) LVM configuration cannot be removed when volume groups with the same name are found during installation. Partitioner does not support installation when multiple conflicting/identical volume groups have been detected. For example reinstalling Ubuntu with LVM across multiple disk drives that had individual LVM installations of Ubuntu. As a workaround, please format disk drives prior to installation, or from the built in shell provided in the installer. (1679184) cio_ignore blacklist is no longer active after installation, because not all install-time parameters, like cio_ignore (s390x), are propagated to the installed system. Workaround is to edit /etc/zipl.conf to apply these and re-run sudo zipl to update the IPL. (1571561)
USB printers do not get set up automatically and IPP-over-USB does not work at all. Please set up your USB printer using "Devices"/"Printers" in the GNOME Settings. If possible, especially for driverless printing, connect your printer via network (Ethernet or Wi-Fi) or wait to upgrade to 17.10 until the problem gets fixed (1721839). The release notes for the official flavours can be found at the following links: Lubuntu Next https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/LubuntuNext Ubuntu Budgie https://ubuntubudgie.org/blog/2017/09/25/17-10-release-notes Ubuntu Kylin https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylin Ubuntu MATE https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-artful-beta2/ Ubuntu Studio https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtfulAardvark/UbuntuStudio Xubuntu http://wiki.xubuntu.org/releases/17.10/release-notes
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32-bit installer images are no longer provided for Ubuntu Desktop. Ubuntu Server
qemu 2.10
libvirt 3.6
DPDK 17.05.2
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