Ubuntu 22.10 is here. Kinetic Kudu – named after the African antelope with magnificent horns that’s nicknamed the “grey ghost” for its ability to materialise silently then vanish like smoke – is anything but grey. A worthy successor to Jammy Jellyfish, it’s packed with new features and under-the-hood improvements that will tempt even the most loyal members of the LTS crowd to break their cardinal rule of one upgrade every two years.
Highlights include improvements to Gnome that make the desktop more attractive and easier to navigate, switches to new hardware standards to improve audio, and a new quick-settings panel to bring you key functionality within a couple of mouse clicks.
But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Before we take you on the grand tour, we’ll first reveal the steps you need to follow to update to Ubuntu 22.10 if you haven’t already. We’ll remind you of some good practices to ensure the update is smooth, point you towards to the ISO for a clean install if you want it, and also look at how to upgrade your Ubuntu Server instances, too.
We’ll then take you through the major highlights of this new release, revealing what to look out for and where to find it. We’ll even find time to highlight a few changes among the many flavours of Ubuntu that sit alongside the default build. Ready to take the next leap forward in the ongoing journey of Ubuntu? Get yourself strapped in, and prepare to be suitably impressed…
If you’re on Ubuntu’s interim release schedule, you should receive an ‘Ubuntu 22.10 Upgrade Available’ prompt within days of Ubuntu 22.10 being released. It’s a good
