I-Canonical namuhla imemezele ukutholakala ngokushesha kwe-beta yokugcina ye-Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver , kanye ne-beta yesibili yokusabalalisa okusemthethweni.
Ngenkathi cishe konke ukusatshalaliswa okusemthethweni kwe-Ubuntu kubambe iqhaza kwi-beta yenyanga edlule, lena yi-beta yomphakathi yokuqala ye-Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bonke abasebenzisi abangayilanda futhi bayifake kumakhompyutha abo ngenkathi belinde ukwethulwa ngokusemthethweni ngenyanga ezayo.
I-Ubuntu 18.04 iyinguqulo yesikhombisa ye-Long Term Support (LTS) evela ku-Canonical , futhi iza kithi ngezici eziningi ezintsha zomphakathi, kufaka phakathi izingqikithi ezintsha, kanye neseva ye-Xorg ethatha indawo ye-Wayland, esetshenziswa ku-Ubuntu 17.10.
Njengoba kulindelekile, i-GNOME 3.28 iyindawo ezenzakalelayo , yize ezinye izingxenye zingenakuvuselelwa, isibonelo, umphathi wefayela we-Nautilus ongasekeli ukuphatha izithonjana kudeskithophu ezinguqulweni zawo zakamuva.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, inikwe amandla yiLinux Kernel 4.15
Inhliziyo ye-Ubuntu 18.04 LTS kukhona i-Linux Kernel 4.15, esevele ifaka ama-patches e-Meltdown kanye ne-Spectre. Izinsiza eziningi zizofika ngefomethi ye-Snap, njenge-system monitor, i-calculator, izinhlamvu, kanye nama-log.
Phakathi kwezinye izinto, ungashintsha phakathi kweziteshi ezahlukahlukene ze-Snap ku-Ubuntu Software. Abasebenzisi be-Ubuntu 18.04 bazokwazi ukusebenzisa i-Synaptics driver kuhlelo lokusebenza lwe-Izilungiselelo noma ngabe i-libinput ingumshayeli wedifolthi wamagundane namaphedi wokuthinta, futhi ukuchofoza kwesokudla kushintshiwe kwaba ngokuchofoza kweminwe emibili.
Ungalanda i-beta yokugcina (ebizwa nangokuthi i-Developer Beta) ye-Ubuntu 18.04 njengamanje, kanye nama-beta okunye ukusatshalaliswa okusemthethweni (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Ubuntu Budgie, phakathi kwabanye) kumawebhusayithi abo asemthethweni. Kodwa-ke, ungalindeli izinguquko eziningi phakathi kwama-beta okuqala nawokugcina alokhu kusatshalaliswa okusemthethweni. Inguqulo yokugcina ye-Ubuntu 18.04 kulindeleke ukuthi ifike ekupheleni kwale nyanga, ikakhulukazi ngomhlaka-26 Ephreli.