Introduction

These release notes for Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu 19.10 and its flavours.

Support lifespan

Ubuntu 19.10 will be supported for 9 months until July 2020. If you need Long Term Support, it is recommended you use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS instead.

Official flavour release notes

Find the links to release notes for official flavors here.

Get Ubuntu 19.10

Download Ubuntu 19.10

Images can be downloaded from a location near you.

You can download ISOs and flashable images from:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/19.10/ (Ubuntu Desktop and Server)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/19.10/release/ (Less Popular Ubuntu Images)
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server/eoan/current/ (Ubuntu Cloud Images)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/19.10/ (Ubuntu Netboot)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/19.10/release/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/19.10/release/ (Lubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-budgie/releases/19.10/release/ (Ubuntu Budgie)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/19.10/release/ (Ubuntu Kylin)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/19.10/release/ (Ubuntu MATE)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/19.10/release/ (Ubuntu Studio)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/19.10/release/ (Xubuntu)

Upgrading from Ubuntu 19.04

To upgrade on a desktop system:

• Open the "Software & Updates" application.

• 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 -c" (without the quotes) into the command box.
• Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '19.10' 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 Prompt=normal.

• Launch the upgrade tool with the command do-release-upgrade.

• Follow the on-screen instructions.

Note that the server upgrade will use GNU screen and automatically re-attach in case of dropped connection problems.

There are no offline upgrade options for Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server. Please ensure you have network connectivity to one of the official mirrors or to a locally accessible mirror and follow the instructions above.

Upgrades on i386

Users of the i386 architecture will not be presented with an upgrade to Ubuntu 19.10. Support for i386 as a host architecture is dropped in 19.10.

New features in 19.10

Updated Packages

Linux kernel 🐧

Ubuntu 19.10 is based on the Linux release series 5.3.

Toolchain Upgrades 🛠️

Ubuntu 19.04 comes with refreshed state-of-the-art toolchain including new upstream releases of glibc 2.30, ☕ OpenJDK 11, rustc 1.37, and updated GCC 8.3, optional GCC 9, 🐍 Python 3.7.3 as default, 💎 ruby 2.5.5, php 7.2.15, 🐪 perl 5.28.1, golang 1.10.4. There are new improvements on the cross-compilers front as well with POWER and AArch64 toolchain enabled to cross-compile for ARM, S390X and RISCV64 targets.

Ubuntu Desktop

Desktop Updates

• 19.10 includes GNOME 3.34 which includes a lot of bug fixes, some new features and a significant improvement in responsiveness and speed.
  • You can group icons in the Activities overview by dragging and dropping on to other icons or groups
  • Improved wallpaper settings
  • Improved wifi settings

  • You can read the 3.34 release notes here: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.34/

  • New feature: Plug in a USB drive and access it directly from the dock
  • New themes: Yaru light and dark variants are now available. Install GNOME Tweaks to easily switch your default.
• GNOME Performance improvements
  • Consistently higher and smoother frame rates.
  • Lower response latency in Xorg sessions
  • Faster cursor response and lower CPU usage on Nvidia hardware
  • Faster and smoother rendering on Nvidia hardware on Xorg sessions
  • Lower latency on touchpad scrolling

* Updated applications

• Libre Office 6.3
• Firefox 69

Ubuntu Server

qemu

libvirt

PHP 7.3

PHP 7.3 brings some refinements to the language: Flexible heredoc and newdoc syntaxes, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR, list() reference assignment, and several new functions. Case-insensitive constants and several functions have been deprecated and/or removed, so developers moving to 7.3 may find it help to review the 7.2 to 7.3 migration guide.

OpenStack Train

Ubuntu 19.10 includes the latest OpenStack release, Train, including the following components:

• OpenStack Identity - Keystone

• OpenStack Imaging - Glance

• OpenStack Block Storage - Cinder

• OpenStack Compute - Nova

• OpenStack Networking - Neutron

• OpenStack Telemetry - Ceilometer, Aodh, Gnocchi, and Panko

• OpenStack Orchestration - Heat

• OpenStack Dashboard - Horizon

• OpenStack Object Storage - Swift

• OpenStack Database as a Service - Trove

• OpenStack DNS as a Service - Designate

• OpenStack Bare-metal - Ironic

• OpenStack Filesystem - Manila

• OpenStack Key Manager - Barbican

WARNING: Upgrading an OpenStack deployment is a non-trivial process and care should be taken to plan and test upgrade procedures which will be specific to each OpenStack deployment.

Make sure you read the OpenStack Charm Release Notes for more information about how to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack using Juju.

s390x

IBM Z and LinuxONE / s390x-specific enhancements (since 19.04) include:

Known issues

As is to be expected, with any release, there are some significant known bugs that users may run into with this release of Ubuntu 19.10. 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:

Desktop

Official flavours

The release notes for the official flavours can be found at the following links:

• Kubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu

• Lubuntu https://lubuntu.me/disco-released

• Ubuntu Budgie https://ubuntubudgie.org/blog/2019/09/26/19-10-release-notes

• Ubuntu Kylin http://www.ubuntukylin.com/news/shownews.php?id=1506&lang=en

• Ubuntu MATE https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-19-10-eoan-ermine-release/

• Ubuntu Studio https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EoanErmine/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio

• Xubuntu https://wiki.xubuntu.org/releases/19.10/release-notes

More information

Reporting bugs

Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions will help fix bugs and improve the quality of future releases. Please report bugs using the tools provided.

If you want to help out with bugs, the Bug Squad is always looking for help.

Participate in Ubuntu

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at

• https://community.ubuntu.com/contribute

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