After releasing Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish, Canonical is now giving the kick-off to begin development of their next major release, Ubuntu 19.04, with a tentative release date for spring 2019.
Although Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth is no longer naming Ubuntu releases, the development team has already done so for the next release, Ubuntu 19.04, also posting a draft of the update schedule.
Ubuntu 19.04 will be called Disco Dingo and will be released on April 18, 2019. The development cycle was officially started on October 25, 2018. Three weeks of testing are planned for January 3 and 31 and February 28, 2019.
Ubuntu 19.04 beta is expected on March 28, 2019
Ubuntu 19.04 will continue the tradition of removing goals from alpha phases and will be left with a single beta for the entire release cycle. Ubuntu 18.10 was the first system to follow this development strategy.
Therefore, Ubuntu 19.04 beta will hit the streets on March 28, 2019. This will be the only phase of development that will be open to all audiences. After that, the phase where the kernel is frozen follows, agreed for April 4, to give way to the phase where the software is frozen, on April 11, days before its official launch.
For now there is no information about the changes that will come with Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo, but we already know that it will arrive with the GNOME 3.32 development environment (to be released on March 13, 2019) and will be powered by the latest version of the Linux Kernel available to early next spring, Linux 5.0.