Beta-issue Ubuntu 22.04

is presented Beta-issue of the Ubuntu 22.04 distribution unit 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”, after the formation of which produced Complete freezing of the packet base, and the developers moved to final testing and correcting errors. Release, which is assigned to the category of issues with a long service life (LTS), the updates for which are formed within 5 years to 2027, scheduled for April 21. Ready test images are created for Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server , Lubuntu , kubuntu , ubuntu Mate , Ubuntu.
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, Ubuntu Studio , Xubuntu and ubuntukylin (editors for China).

Basic Changes :

  • Desktop is updated before the release of GNOME 42, which has added common to the entire interface design settings and performed GNOME Shell performance. To maintain the holistic design and stability of the user environment in Ubuntu 22.04, the versions of some applications from the GNOME 41 branch are left (mainly we are talking about applications translated into GNOME 42 on GTK 4 and Libadwaita). For most configurations, the default session is involved on the Wayland protocol database, but when entering the system is left to roll back to using the X server.
  • 3 options for color decoration in dark and light styles are proposed. Pictograms on the desktop by default are moved to the right bottom edge of the screen (this behavior can be changed in the appearance settings). In the design of yaru for all elements of buttons, sliders, widgets and switches instead of eggplant color involved orange. A similar replacement is made in a set of pictograms. The color of the closing button of the active window is changed from orange on gray, and the color of the handles of the slider with light gray on white.

  • Firefox browser is now supplied only in SNAP format. Debets Firefox and Firefox-Locale Replacements on plugs that install SNAP package with Firefox. For the DEB package users, a transparent transition process to SNAP via the update is published, which will install the SNAP package and takes the current settings from the user’s home directory.
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