The upcoming Canonical Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine operating system entered the Final Freeze phase, just days before its final release on 17 October.
Since 10 October, the release of Ubuntu 19.10 is officially in the Final Freeze phase, the last step of its development phase, which means that only critical bugs affecting ISO images or installers are fixed.
Release Candidate ISOs are also available for testing, to ensure that the final version does not avoid errors.
Ubuntu 19.10 will be released on October 17 with news characteristics.
The upcoming Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine operating system will be released with many new features and updated packages, among which we can mention the latest desktop environment GNOME 3.34, the series of Linux 5.3 kernel with LZ4 compression algorithm for initramfs, experimental support for the system files ZFS, the new LibreOffice 6.3, PulseAudio 13.0 software, and the Firefox 69 browser.
The toolchain of the operating system was updated with the following packages: GCC 9.2.1, Glibc 2.30, Python 3.7.5, Ruby 2.5.5, PHP 7.3.8, Perl 5.28.1, Golang 1.12.10, OpenJDK 11, QEMU 4.0, dpdk 18.11.2, Openvack 5.6, libvirt X, and Rustc 2.12. The AArch1.37 and POWER toolkits can cross-compile for ARM, S64X and RISCV390 architectures.
Ubuntu 19.10 also supports the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and comes with Nvidia-specific enhancements such as better reliability frommovements when using the Nvidia graphics driver. Packages are now included in the ISO image by default, as well as improved frame rate performance for Nvidia GPUs.
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