I'm currently running 18.04 LTS.  I'd like to upgrade my existing machine to 20.04 LTS.  If I enter sudo update-manager -d in the terminal, it finds an updated release (20.04).  When I proceed with the installation the release notes that appear on screen indicate this is still a development release.  Is there a way I can run update-manager -d so it updates and points to the non-development branch release of 20.04?  Or do I simply have to wait?  Thanks
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Update  appear to have been updated recently (as of writing this the last update appears to have taken place on 3rd of June) to include the following statement:  The -d switch is necessary to upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as upgrades have not yet been enabled and will only be enabled after the first point release of 20.04 LTS.  Also note that .  TLDR (as of 15 Aug 2020):   is the canonical tracking document for the first Focal Fossa point-release (20.04.1). It’s a live document. The Ubuntu release team will be updating it as we work on releasing 20.04.1. […] Upgrades from 18.04 to 20.04.1 are still disabled as we are working through a few upgrade blockers   Edit The answers (so far) do not answer the question. The question is pretty simple. Ubuntu.com points to a &quot;FinalRelease&quot;, which turns out to be a &quot;Development Release&quot;, see evidence below. I'm not asking how and when to upgrade. I'm pointing out what seems to me to be an apparent inconcistency (in semantics, linguistics, logic) in the way Ubuntu names or labels its releases. From an answer to the question I'd except someone to pick up and acknowledge this inconsistency. An answer could start with a &quot;Yes, ...&quot; or a &quot;No, ...&quot;, for starters. (Moreover, a good answer could distinguish between the release being in dev stage and/or the upgrade process (e.g. from LTS to LTS) being in dev stage, if appropriate.) This question, as I see it, is not a duplicate. Futher, I think it is a question which deserves a non-patronizing answer. Thanks.   indicates that today (23rd April 2020) the new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is to be released.  See &quot;condensed screenshot&quot; here:  Indeed, it seems that that's what happened, see  and :  However, when following the instructions to upgrade (from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS) found  and elsewhere (edit: actually , too!), even prior to the July point release, I'm a bit confused to see that the instruction is to use update-manager -d which also points to the &quot;Development Release&quot; (see screenshot below) rather than the &quot;FinalRelease&quot; (see screenshot and link above). Is the &quot;Final Release&quot; (which I'm after) the/a &quot;Development Release&quot;? Why isn't it called something like &quot;Production Release&quot; or &quot;Final Release&quot;? When will it no longer be referred to as &quot;Development Release&quot;? In July? I'm confused :(
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Today is the release of Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo). And I can't update to this version. And also I selected ‘Notify me of a new Ubuntu version’ and changed it to ‘For any new version' on the Updates tab on Software &amp; Update, but it's still not working. In addition, in the terminal, I've written: sudo do-release-upgrade -c  And output was: Checking for a new Ubuntu release No new release found.  What should I do?
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I still have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop on my systems.  10.04 Desktop has reached end of life.  I understand that means there will be no more security updates for this product.  Is that correct?  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server is still supported for another year.  Will the security updates for the Server work for the Desktop?   If I do an update from the 10.04 LTS Desktop, what gets updated?  Any kernel updates?
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Not a problem, but have been seeing questions recently of people not being offered upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04.  I thought these upgrades were offered back in June.  I upgraded to 20.04 from 19.10 and this was offered back in May.  Imagine that different versions paths have different schedules, but google does not help explaining(that I found).  Does someone know the schedules?
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I am able to use Update Manager to install new modules, instead of having to manually upload them. I previously put everything in sites/all/modules, but now have reorganized my modules into sites/all/modules/contrib and sites/all/modules/custom (for the modules I write or modify).  However, Update Manager is still installing new modules in sites/all/modules. Is it possible to tell Update Manager to install new modules in sites/all/modules/contrib instead? I looked for a setting somewhere, but can't find one (D7).
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I've installed ubuntu 17.04 and I want to upgrade it to 18.04. When I tried to do:   sudo do-release-upgrade   I got a message saying An upgrade from 'zesty' to 'bionic' is not supported with this tool. Need inputs to proceed on this.  sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore. For upgrade information, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife  Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]                                            Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,257 kB]                                                   Fetched 1,258 kB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                  authenticate 'bionic.tar.gz' against 'bionic.tar.gz.gpg'  extracting 'bionic.tar.gz'  Reading cache  Checking package manager  Can not upgrade   An upgrade from 'zesty' to 'bionic' is not supported with this tool.
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When I attempted to upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, there was no autorun feature for the upgrade.  So I went into Update Manager, Settings, and clicked "Add Volume" and it added the DVD I had downloaded and burned.  However, during the upgrade it says "1,164M to download".   How can this be true?  I have almost all the packages on the DVD.  Is there something additionally I should do to avoid downloading?
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Using Ubuntu, I have a habit of running: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade   on every startup. But for a month, I guess, there have been no updates whatsoever. The message shows: All packages are up to date  Now I am starting to worry. Can there be a fault in my update manager? As far as I know, I've made no changes to the package manager settings. But no updates for almost a month seems kind of weird. Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks.
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As of 8/2 I'm still unable to upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 using the do-release-upgrade command. Still "No new release found." I don't remember it ever taking this long before. And I'd rather not use -d , cause I want to stay on the LTS.  I know they said it'd be a few days, but it's been like a week.. Was there an unexpected delay or something?
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I answered  about do-release-upgrade not allowing an upgrade of 14.10 to 15.04 only to 15.10, I assumed it was due to 15.04 being end of life.  A user (@xangua ) posted that it was not possible to skip a release with do-release-upgrade, so I looked in to this information by running the command on my 14.04 box, but this is where the confusion began.  My 14.04 wants to upgrade straight to 15.04?   Of course this invalidates my answer as 15.04 is end of life, but why does this command seem to be skipping versions, if not based on end of life?   There is no indication any thing from 14.10 is being downloaded by the upgrade and software-updater says Ubuntu 15.04 is now available for download, some clarification of this would be great.
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I have Git version 1.5.4.3 installed, but I think this must be an old version. I'm running Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. I need to install at least version 1.6 to get a Git GUI to work. How do I upgrade my installation?  Update: I managed to upgrade my installation of Git, but I also realized that my version of Ubuntu was old so I upgraded to the newest version, which automatically gave me access to newer packages (including Git).
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I was wondering why the command do-release-upgrade doesn't require sudo? I mean, it does significantly change your system, so I would have guessed it requires sudo.   is from ubuntu self, but it isn't that helpful. I just want to know how this is secure for the integrity for my system, if every user can access this command.   Thanks in advance.  [EDIT]:  I used a new terminal window, thus no sudo that wasn't expired yet, and I used the command do-release-upgrade NOT sudo do-release-upgrade.So even with unexpired sudo I should be unable to upgrade.  [EDIT 2]:
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I'm trying to compile a document that only works with an up-to-date distribution, so I'd like to know: how do I update my distribution? Please provide screenshots where appropriate.  List of answers           To keep an eye on what’s going on at CTAN you may subscribe to the  or the RSS feed feed://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/maillist.xml
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I'm trying to upgrade from 18.10 to 19.10, using sudo do-release-upgrade however I only get an error: An upgrade from 'cosmic' to 'eoan' is not supported with this tool. I performed the steps to update my sources.list to point to old-release server, as suggested here:  This did not help. I get the same error.
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I've got an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server.  There are several packages which are "kept back" ("the following updates have been kept back") when I do an apt-get upgrade.  It's my understanding that I can do an apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade these packages, but I have a few concerns:   If I do a dist-upgrade, will I be upgrading from 8.04 to higher version (8.10 I guess)?  If so, what's the point of 8.04 being "Long Term Support" (LTS)? Is this a "dangerous" process?  I'm assuming that packages are kept back because there are new packages that they depend on.  Does dist-upgrade simply pull the new packages and do a fairly straightforward upgrade, or are there caveats to look into?
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Today I received an update notification for three updates but update manager doesn't say what updates are they.    Does anyone have a clue what this is about? How am I to check what is to be updated?
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I wanted to update Ubuntu manually, because I used CDMA USB modem and connected using wvdial, but it won't able to update Ubuntu via Update Manager, because my Ubuntu won't showing "Connected" message via network-manager.  Can I update Ubuntu manually? Am I should download separate files, or use terminal instead?