Release Notes for Ubuntu Studio 16.04 Xenial Xerus

Please see XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes for general Ubuntu release notes.

Getting Ubuntu Studio Xenial Xerus (16.04)

Download a Disk Image

• Bootable images for standard PCs/laptops/netbooks

Instructions for burning the image to a DVD or USB flash drive can be found on the Burning ISO Howto.

Check MD5SUM for the downloaded ISO

It is recommended to check your image file so your pre-release is as it’s supposed to be. Compare your MD5 checksum with the correct ones found alongside the images.

Changes for this LTS release (compared to previous LTS)

• Adoption of the whisker menu
• Several improvements of the desktop interactions.
• New font: Droid has been replaced by Noto.

• The categorization in the menu has changed. Still work in progress, but we have gone from 5 main categories down to 3 - audio, graphics and video.

• The application ubuntustudio-controls is now functional and able to administer realtime privilege for users.

• Ubuntu has followed Debian in moving from libav back to ffmpeg.

• As usual, lot's of applications have been updated. Special notice for ardour - the package is called ardour3, but the application itself is actually version 4.

Known Problems

• recordmydesktop output is corrupt - video glitching out (1531852)

• Blueman-applet crashing on login (1533206)

• First entry of the boot-menu "Try UbuntuStudio without installing" does not get translated into the chosen language (1550186)

• parole crashing with SIGSEGV in cogl_matrix_entry_ref() (1550198)

• ImageMagick Entries not working in whiskers menu (1550210)

• Scribus defaults to 10.15 Saturday Night BRK Regular font (1550216)

• Qjackctl Systray option does not work (1546328)

Support

Ubuntu Studio Xenial Xerus (16.04) is a Long Term Support (LTS) release and will be supported for 3 years.

Contact Us

Ways to contact the Ubuntu Studio Team are listed here