Arthur Posted October 23, 2014 Posted October 23, 2014 (edited) Download / Release Notes Torrents [b]64-bit[/b]: [url="http://releases.ubuntu.com/utopic/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent"]http://releases.ubuntu.com/utopic/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent[/url] [b]32-bit[/b]: [url="http://releases.ubuntu.com/utopic/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent"]http://releases.ubuntu.com/utopic/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent[/url] As with every new release, packages--applications and software of all kinds--are being updated at a rapid pace. Many of these packages came from an automatic sync from Debian's unstable branch; others have been explicitly pulled in for Ubuntu 14.10. Linux kernel 3.16 The Ubuntu 14.10 release delivers a v3.16 based kernel. This brings a significant number of bug fixes and new hardware support including expanded architecture support for Power 8 and arm64 platforms. It also includes support for Intel Cherryview, Haswell, Broadwell and Merrifield systems, and initial support for Nvidia GK20A and GK110B GPU’s. There is improved graphics performance on many Nvidia, Intel and ATI Radeon devices and also audio improvements with support for the Radeon .264 video encoder. Expanded platform support is enabled via support for 64 bit EFI boot on 32 bit EFI BIOS. This release also brings performance improvements in suspend/resume times. For developers we see significant improvements in tracing and debugging with new triggers for kernel trace points, and expansion of uprobe support. This release also brings a new experimental deadline CPU scheduler. For servers we see better support for bursty workloads, improved resident set tracking, and a better NUMA migration strategy. Filesystem support is also improved with faster file allocations for database use and several filesystems show performance improvements including XFS and Btrfs. XFS now has stabilized its v5 format and sports expanded direct I/O support. Btrfs now supports per directory switchable compression modes. raid5 performance is also improved. This release also brings improvements to networking, including a new packet scheduler for high latency links, and efforts to bring IPv6 support in line with IPv4. We see performance improvements for openvswitch and VTI tunneling. As always, various new pieces of hardware are now supported including Intel AVX-512 and Intel MXP. On cloud we see Hyper-V, XEN, and KVM networking performance improvements. Hyper-V now supports the hypervisor driven file copy and reference time services. For KVM we see improved support for passing through new x86 vector instructions. On the security front we see full Kernel Address Space Layout Randomisation applied to the kernel and its modules, plus the closure of a number of information leaks in /proc. We also see additional support for cryptographic devices. AppArmor AppArmor added support for fine-grained mediation of unix(7) abstract and anonymous sockets and also added various policy updates and bug fixes. AppArmor policy has been adjusted for packages that ship it to work with these changes, but local policy may need to be adjusted unix rules. See man 5 apparmor.d for details. Oxide Oxide has been updated to use the latest Chromium Content API and includes numerous bug fixes and features to better support webbrowser-app, webapps and apps using UbuntuWebViews. Oxide is a webview based on Chromium to deliver web content. Oxide allows us to better support 3rd party developers and applications within the Ubuntu archive by providing a fast, secure and up to date webengine library for the duration of this release. While other web content libraries such as those based on webkit are available, their maintenance will be limited to new upstream minor version releases only, and application developers are encouraged to use Oxide instead. Ubuntu Desktop The general theme for 14.10 on the desktop is one of bug fixes and incremental quality improvements. Unity Unity has had many bugs fixed and features improved support for High-DPI displays. General Firefox is updated to version 33 and Chromium is updated to version 38. Gtk updated to version 3.12. Qt updated to version 5.3 Support for IPP Everywhere printers is added, and printers shared from Ubuntu can emulate IPP Everywhere printers. IPP printers require no configuration under Ubuntu. More information about IPP Everywhere is available here: http://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html LibreOffice LibreOffice 4.3 brings a lot of improvements including improved PDF support, new features in Writer, Calc and Impress (word processor, spreadsheet and presentations). Full details here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.3 Ubuntu Developer Tools Centre This new tool allows developers to quickly and easily setup a variety of development environments on their Ubuntu Desktop. More information here: http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Ubuntu-loves-Developers Xorg With Xorg 1.16, we have better support for non-pci devices. Xephyr now supports DRI3. The mesa 10.3 update has support for AMD Hawaii GPU's, improved support for dri3 offloading, the freedreno open source driver, and preliminary support for using nouveau on maxwell devices. Edited October 23, 2014 by Arthur
SteveM555 Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 Loving the added Hyper-V support :-) Will be giving this a try out next week..
Geoff Posted October 27, 2014 Posted October 27, 2014 Hyper-V? Isn't everyone using KVM by now? It works far better.
Geoff Posted October 30, 2014 Posted October 30, 2014 Yes, I have an oVirt cluster here. It works really well if you don't need the extra bells and whistles of VMWare. Also docker, with it's lower overheads, looks interesting for some deployments (I'm thinking of my Apache and Postfix servers here). https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/
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