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Ubuntu 22.04.1: Slightly late, but a worthwhile upgrade

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 12, 2022

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The first point-release of the newest Ubuntu is here, which marks the stage it formally becomes the new long-term-support release.

As we mentioned last week, there were some last-minute delays in the 22.04.1 release process. The release was delayed until August 11. But now it's here, as Canonical announced on its official blog. The release notes list the changes.

This is only a point release of the OS, and if you are already running "Jammy Jellyfish" you will automatically get 22.04.1 when you next run a full update. No new installation of the OS is needed. If you are doing new installations, though, Ubuntu makes new installation images for each point release, so if you go to the downloads page, you will get a shiny new 22.04.1 image. If you keep an emergency boot disk, for instance with Ventoy, this is a good time to update it.

All the same, it's significant in a few ways. It's a bug-fix release, so with any luck, you won't notice any changes – just a few things may start working more smoothly. In theory, the Snap-packaged version of Firefox may start a little faster.

One of the most noticeable is that the first point-release that follows an Ubuntu LTS is when people running the previous LTS release will start getting notified and prompted to update. So if you are running 20.04 "Focal Fossa," or the previous short-term release 21.10 "Impish Indri," then you can expect to receive nags any time now.

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