La second maintenance update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS It will arrive in two days as a new image that will allow users to make new installations from scratch.
Under the name of Bionic Beaver, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is the last version with long-term support from Canonical, having a life cycle of at least 5 years, ending in April 2023, although Mark Shuttleworth promised that would extend this period 5 more years.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was released with Linux Kernel 4.15 by default and its first maintenance update, Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, which arrived on July 26, 2018, did not bring any news in this section, so Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS will be the first to change Kernel.
Now that Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS has been on the market for a while, and uses the new Linux Kernel 4.18, we believe canonical will implement it in this next update along with several new versions of different components.
We also expect Ubuntu 18.04.2 to include the new version of the GNOME desktop environment environment, GNOME 3.30, but this might not happen because being a system with extended maintenance it focuses more on stability than on the novelties of its software.
The good news is that anyone who wants to install Ubuntu 18.04.2 on their PC for the first time will be able to download an updated image so they won't have to download updates from the repositories again. Ubuntu will arrive in two days, we will be informing when it happens.
The release will be delayed to February 14th due to boot issues with kernel 4.18
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