Ubuntu 7.04 release candidate delayed due to validation bugs

The Ubuntu 7.04 release candidate (due on April 12, 2007) has been delayed due to bugs discovered during validation testing, specifically problems with certain ATA chipsets and problems with the connection status displayed by the network-manager panel applet. There is no updated ETA yet, but the core development team is actively working on the problems and expect it to be a matter of days.

Further announcement will be made when more is known.

Source: Ubuntu Devel Mailing List

I hope this doesn't delay Ubuntu from releasing 7.04 on the scheduled date i.e. April 19th.

Is it due to the kernel 2.6.19+ deal of merger of old ata into libata and hence renaming ata drives to scsi creating problems?

M

Could be and I guess they'd be using 2.6.20 kernel cos it was available long time back in Jan, when I had tried Feisty.

Well there are no details mentioned so currently it is anyone's guess as to what the problem actually is. I recently used Kubuntu 7.04 Beta and it named everything correctly so it shouldn't be naming the devices thing.

Will Canonial ship cds of Ubuntu 7.04 when it is finally released?

^^ Yes, it will

And one of the reasons why the RC was delayed was the malfunctioning of Network-Manager.

nitish_mythology said:
Will Canonial ship cds of Ubuntu 7.04 when it is finally released?

....Sure, Only If It Has LTS (Long Term Support).

....Let's Hope, We'll Get Ubuntu 7.x As DVD Version With Plenty of Stuff Pre Loaded. Cheers!

M

Feisty won't have long term support.
The one with LTS will be feisty+1(aka gusty gibbon for now)
But, I believe they're shipping feisty.

Yes, Feisty Fawn will be shipped. I just checked shipit.com and it said Feisty will be shipped.

Fesity will be shipped, and no Gutsy Gibbon wont be an LTS release..

M

Why isn't gutsy gonna be LTS? any reason given?

No reason given yet.. But it was on the mailing lists that it wont be an LTS release..

tech_your_future - ShipIt already has put it up that they are shipping Feisty CDs, and they definitely are gonna put LTS in it.

Check ShipIt yourself. Requests are now trimmed down to 3 or 1. I ordered 1.

^ Feisty Fawn will not be LTS...how are they going to put LTS "in it" anyways?

On the disc cover

But isn't it like all CDs shipped always carry LTS with them?

^^ No, its not like that..

I chose the non standard option of 1PC and 1 64bit edition of Ubuntu. I hope the package comes in time coz they were saying the package would take about 10 weeks for delivery.
Waise is there any DVD version of 7.04 in shipit????

No DVDs, just CDs.