Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which is codenamed the Bionic Beaver, is currently penciled in to ship on 26 April, 2018. The release date Ubuntu 18.04 has now been firmed up as are the other development milestones leading up to the end-April, after a long time Ubuntu making Gnome its default desktop environment for LTS, Ubuntu community can help iron this transition from Unity to Gnome by testing pre-release version.
Bionic Beaver is a Long-Term-Support release for 5 years including selected application updates, critical security updates and bugs fixes.
Bionic Beaver is a Long-Term-Support release for 5 years including selected application updates, critical security updates and bugs fixes.
The schedule of the release of Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver with given dates are as follows:
- 4th January 2018 - Alpha 1 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
- 1st February 2018 - Alpha 2 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
- 8th March 2018 - Beta 1 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
- 5th April 2018 - Final Beta
- 19th April 2018 - Release Candidate
- 26th April 2018 - Final Release
