[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio 23.04 Beta Released!

[Erich Eickmeyer]

The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu
Studio 23.10, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”.

While this beta is reasonably free of any showstopper installer bugs, you
may find some bugs within. This image is, however, mostly representative of
what you will find when Ubuntu Studio 23.04 is released on April 20, 2023.
Special notes:

The Ubuntu Studio 22.10 disk image (ISO) exceeds 4 GB and cannot be
downloaded to some file systems such as FAT32, and may not be readable when
burned to a DVD. For this reason, we recommend downloading to a compatible
file system. When creating a boot medium, we recommend creating a bootable
USB stick
 with
the ISO image, or burning to a Dual-Layer DVD.

Images can be obtained from this link:
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/23.04/beta/

Full updated information, including Upgrade Instructions, are available in
the Release Notes
.

New Features This Release

   - PipeWire is now enabled with JACK support by default. More on that here
   .
   - Ubuntu Studio Installer has been completely rewritten from the
   ground-up and can be used to remove components you don’t want. Version
   1.4
   - Patchance, a simple patchbay for JACK (works with Pipewire with JACK).
   version 1.0.0
   - We have changed back to the Materia theme first used in Ubuntu Studio
   19.04, this time using the dark theme by default.
   - Entirely new Login Screen and Lock Screen Theme based on the Materia
   theme. This is to differentiate from the Breeze theme traditionally used in
   KDE Plasma and used mostly in Kubuntu, as to set our default setup apart
   and to not simply be “Kubuntu with a bunch of extra packages.”

Major Package Upgrades

   - Darktable version 4.2.1
   - Gimp version 2.10.34
   - Ardour version 7.3.0
   - OBS Studio version 29.0.2
   - Audacity version 3.2.4
   - digiKam version 8.0.0-beta1
   - Kdenlive version 22.12.3
   - Krita version 5.1.5

There are many other improvements, too numerous to list here. We encourage
you to look around the freely-downloadable ISO image.
Known Issues

   - digiKam is a beta release of 8.0.0. As such, it may have undocumented
   bugs. We hope these bugs get ironed out by the time 8.0.0 stable comes out,
   and the digiKam developers have set a goal for April 2023 for a release.
   When the 8.0.0 stable release of digiKam becomes available, we hope to
   provide these to you as a Stable Release Update. If you would like a stable
   version of digiKam now, a snap of 7.8.0 is available
   .

Official Ubuntu Studio release notes can be found at
https://ubuntustudio.org/ubuntu-studio-23-04-release-notes/

Further known issues, mostly pertaining to the desktop environment, can be
found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LunarLobster/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu (when
available)

Additionally, the main Ubuntu release notes contain more generic issues:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/kinetic-kudu-release-notes/27976
Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does KDE Plasma use more resources than your former desktop environment
(Xfce)?
A: In our testing, the increase in resource usage is negligible, and our
optimizations were never tied to the desktop environment.

Q: Does Ubuntu Studio contain snaps?
A: Yes. Mozilla’s distribution agreement with Canonical changed, and Ubuntu
was forced to no longer distribute Firefox in a native .deb package. We
have found that, after numerous improvements, Firefox now performs just as
well as the native .deb package did.

Additionally, Freeshow is an Electron-based application. Electron-based
applications cannot be packaged in the Ubuntu repositories in that they
cannot be packaged in a traditional Debian source package. While such apps
do have a build system to create a .deb binary package, it circumvents the
source package build system in Launchpad, which is required when packaging
for Ubuntu. However, Electron apps also have a facility for creating snaps,
which can be uploaded included. Therefore, for Freeshow to be included in
Ubuntu Studio, it had to be packaged as a snap.

Q: If I install this Beta release, will I have to reinstall when the final
release comes out?
A: No. If you keep it updated, your installation will automatically become
the final release. However, if Audacity returns to the Ubuntu repositories
before final release, then you might end-up with a double-installation of
Audacity. Removal instructions of one or the other will be made available
in a future post.

Q: Will you make an ISO with {my favorite desktop environment}?
A: To do so would require creating an entirely new flavor of Ubuntu, which
would require going through the Official Ubuntu Flavor application process.
Since we’re completely volunteer-run, we don’t have the tim

[ubuntu-studio-devel] Ubuntu Studio daily CD health check

[noreply+ubuntu-cdimage]

This is a daily health check report on the Ubuntu Studio CD images.
If you have any questions, contact Colin Watson .

ubuntustudio/dvd: jammy-dvd-amd64.iso oversized by 131669504 bytes (5131669504)
ubuntustudio/dvd: lunar-dvd-amd64.iso oversized by 193368320 bytes (5693368320)

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