Ubuntu 22.04 LTS “Jammy Jellyfish” will be officially released this Thursday, and today is a candidate image that is hoped for final release. The Canonical development team just called on testers to download and test the Ubuntu 22.04 image of the last candidate beta version, and lead creator Lukasz Zemczak commented:
From what we’ve seen so far, things look pretty good, so hopefully, these are our final versions!
This latest RC image builds for Ubuntu 22.04 are available from the Ubuntu ISO Tracker:
Ubuntu 22.04 Beta adds many package updates over Ubuntu 21.10, including some GNOME 42 components, Wayland sessions that use GNOME by default and NVIDIA drivers, including GNOME triple buffering patches, systemd-oomd integrated out-of-memory processing, tweaking its POWER support baseline, and many other updates.
Linux 5.15 LTS is the default kernel for Ubuntu 22.04, GCC 11.2 is the default system compiler, and Mesa 22.0 provides open-source graphics driver support. Canonical has been developing new desktop installers for Ubuntu, but with the release of 22.04 LTS, the existing Ubiquity is still used by default.