In the days prior, it was announced that the name of Ubuntu 18.10 is Cosmic Cuttlefish and the development was launched with GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 8.1, although it will not be the default, however, there are plans for it to be in the future.
Ubuntu 18.10 is also expected to have a 5.x series kernel, since Linus Torvalds tempted the community with the release of Linux 5.0 when he ended development of the 4.7 series.
The default desktop environment for Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish will be GNOME 3.30 , which will be released on September 5th. However, as is traditional for GNU/Linux distributions, they may use the first update after a major release, so Ubuntu 18.10 could use GNOME 3.30.1, which will arrive on September 26th.
Ubuntu 18.10 officially released in October
While the Ubuntu 18.10 release cycle is not set in stone, it was previously announced that alpha 1 and 2 phases and beta 1 will be completely eliminated for all distributions; instead, there will be so-called "testing weeks" which are planned as follows:
- First week: May 21 to 25
- Second week: June 25 to 29
- Third week: July 23 to 27
- Fourth week: August 27 to 31
The final beta for Ubuntu (and beta 2 for the other distributions) was also omitted from the cycle; instead, there will only be one beta that will reach the public on September 27 for Ubuntu and its distributions alike. After that, we will see a few weeks of rest before the final release takes place on October 18.
Of course, these are the tentative dates and as always happens we could see delays or advances, although the launch proposal is almost always fulfilled within a few days of each other. To know more information about the release cycles you just need to visit the official Ubuntu page.