This is a special year full of events, certainly, with the CODIV-19 disease epidemic. The Ubuntu community still wondering the new Ubuntu LTS release baptized “Focal Fossa”.
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The 20.04 release is the successor of 18.04 release that will end in the year of 2023. Every LTS release is supported for 5 years.
The official release date will be April, 23, 2020. The Milestones throughout the Focal Fossa development cycle include:
- Testing week: January 9, 2020
- UI Freeze: March 19, 2020
- Ubuntu 20.04 Beta: April 2, 2020
- Kernel Freeze: April 9, 2020
- Release Candidate: April 16, 2020
This is the list of new features and changes that will be scheduled to land in this newest release of Ubuntu:
- New Theme “Yaru Theme”
- GNOME 3.36
- Linux Kernel 5.4
- Improved ZFS install support
- New wallpaper
- Smaller .iso image
- Lightning extension added to Thunderbird
- Multi-monitor support in GDM
- Gaming-related improvements
- Better GNOME Shell performance
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Source: omgubuntu