Ubuntu releases

For a detailed list of versions and changes visit wikipedia:Ubuntu_version_history or https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases (not always updated)

Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo

• Linux Kernel 5.11
  • Support for extended attributes in NFS
  • virtio-fs DAX support
• Python 3.9
• Wayland
• Openstack Wallaby

Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla

• https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/groovy-gorilla-release-notes/15533
• nftables is now the default backend for the firewall.
• Telegraf included
• Linux Kernel 5.8

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

• Announcement: https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-20-04-lts-arrives
• Release notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes
• 20.4.2 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/20.04.2
• 20.4.1 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/20.04.1

• Linux Kernel 5.4
• PostgreSQL 12
• MariaDB 10.1.47
• Libvirt v6.0.0
• OpenSSH 8.2 with support for U2F/FIDO
• OpenStack Ussuri
• Prometheus 2.15
• libvirtd 6.0.0
• ZFS 0.8.3 including Native Encryption

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (BionicBeaver)

• Linux Kernel 4.15.0
• Nginx 1.14

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/ChangeSummary/18.04.4 (February 3, 2020 ?)

• QEMU 2.11.1
• OpenSSH 7.6
• PostgreSQL 10
• Libvirtd 4.0.0

• 18.04.0
• 18.04.1
• 18.04.2 15 Feb 2019 announcement Raspberry Pi 3 as a supported image target
• 18.04.3 08 August 2019 announcement
• 18.04.4
• 18.04.5 14 August 2020 http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2020/08/14/ubuntu-18-04-5-lts-released/
  • Raspberry Pi 4 8GB version is now fully supported

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

• netplan for network configuration
• Ceph and ZFS filesystems supported
• Snap packages
• FIPS
• ZFS

Related terms

• do-release-upgrade
• Amazon AMI: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/

See also

• Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (BionicBeaver)
• apt dist-upgrade and do-release-upgrade
• Ubuntu, Ubuntu releases, snap, MAAS, PPA, Canonical Livepatch, Ubuntu Advantage, netplan, multipass, Landscape, Subiquity, lsb_release, Ubuntu MATE, Wayland
• Linux distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Amazon Linux, Oracle Linux, ArchLinux, SUSE
• Software changelogs, git log, GA, EoL, EOS, release cycle, apt changelog, docker-compose changelog

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2021-April/000268.html

https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/nginx-common

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes#Network_configuration