Originate Overviews of Oracular Oriole Kubuntu 24.10

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Kubuntu at the freeze of 24.10 (20 September 2024) includes an RC kernel, in the hope that it will become stable within a month. But, if a week before the final release, the kernel is still in the RC phase, what do they do? Do they hastily regress to the latest ‘stable kernel’ and release version 24.10 with only one week of testing? I think that is not a good idea.

This is their plan - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/kerne...releases/47007

[lednyk]

Kubuntu at the freeze of 24.10 (20 September 2024) includes an RC kernel, in the hope that it will become stable within a month. But, if a week before the final release, the kernel is still in the RC phase, what do they do? Do they hastily regress to the latest ‘stable kernel’ and release version 24.10 with only one week of testing? I think that is not a good idea.

[NoWorries]

It is now just 2 Months before the Release of Oracular Oriole 24.10.

There have been many updates which consolidate the versions of current packages that I have installed, eg ubuntu4 to ubuntu5.

Now for the current Info Centre listing since last months release.

	3 Months To Go	2 Months To Go
KDE Plasma Version	5.27.11	5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version	5.116	5.116
QT Version	5.15.13	5.15.13
Application Version	4:23.08.5	4:23.08.5
Kernel Version	6.8.0-31-generic	6.8.0-31-generic

As you can see, Oracular has not changed in the Versions listed last month. Because of this, I decided to try the proposed plasma and frameworks ppas on my “Sacrificial Desktop” which is an ASUS R501VM Core i7 3610QM that I purchase in December 2012. Using the proposed ppas is definitely not approved by some of those on this forum. Anyhow, as shown in my post #18 above, I have listed below the version differences with the proposed ppa and the current system.

	2 Months To Go	Proposed ppas for Plasma & Frameworks
KDE Plasma Version	5.27.11	6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version	5.116	6.4.0
QT Version	5.15.13	6.6.2
Application Version	4:23.08.5	4:23.08.5
Kernel Version	6.8.0-31-generic	6.8.0-31-generic

On Wayland, Glmark2 was about 2750 which is close to 3.5 times faster than on x11. So considering the age of my Laptop, I am very satisfied with this performance.

I just hope that the developers are able to get the proposed changes into this 24.10 System before its release.

[claydoh]

According to Phoronix, Canonical has changed how they decide on which kernel to ship.
The latest available kernel at the freeze on 20th September (even if it's still just a release candidate) will be included in 24.10.

That should mean that LTS will bump to these fresher kernels as well.

I actually suspect this may be better than the current scheme of taking patches from the newer kernels and applying them to the older ones. I think this might reduce the amount of breakages when they have security and other kernel updates.

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

According to Phoronix, Canonical has changed how they decide on which kernel to ship.
The latest available kernel at the freeze on 20th September (even if it's still just a release candidate) will be included in 24.10.

[NoWorries]

I have now managed to install KDE Plasma 6.1.4, Frameworks 6.4.0, QT Version 6.6.2 using my proposed ppa's

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/staging-plasma
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/staging-frameworks

This system now reboots for me as it previously didn't. I look forward to further developments for Kubuntu. The most annoying feature for me at the moment is that the System Settings do not work and I find the desktop features rather awkward.

I found out why System Settings did not work because somehow the name given to it had a 5 at the end? After getting System Settings to work and sorting out all my "Sacrificial Laptop" settings, Plasma 6.1.4 flies and I am very happy with it.

Congratulations to the developers on a job well done!!!!

[NoWorries]

It is now just 3 Months before the Release of Oracular Oriole 24.10.

While this past month has had many updates, the basic Info Centre Versions are unchanged. So this would have to be one of the easiest progress updates I have ever done.

I decided to copy a small quantity of type of updates that have been happening and this is illustrated below.

Unpacking libmbim-proxy (1.31.2-0ubuntu4) over (1.31.2-0ubuntu3) ...
Preparing to unpack .../06-libmbim-glib4_1.31.2-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libmbim-glib4:amd64 (1.31.2-0ubuntu4) over (1.31.2-0ubuntu3) ...
Preparing to unpack .../07-libmbim-utils_1.31.2-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libmbim-utils (1.31.2-0ubuntu4) over (1.31.2-0ubuntu3) ...
Preparing to unpack .../08-network-manager_1.48.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking network-manager (1.48.4-1ubuntu1) over (1.48.2-1ubuntu1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../09-libnm0_1.48.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libnm0:amd64 (1.48.4-1ubuntu1) over (1.48.2-1ubuntu1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../10-libqt6core6t64_6.6.2+dfsg-9_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libqt6core6t64:amd64 (6.6.2+dfsg-9) over (6.6.2+dfsg-8) ...

I can only hope that all the updates are getting ready for a big one. So it is a case of wait and see.

[NoWorries]

In Australia there have been many viruses circulating simultaneously such as Flu, COVID and RSV. I understand that this is happening in other countries and it wouldn't surprise me if the delays are caused by some developers being infected and not able to contribute as they would like to do. If this is the case, I wish all those unwell, the very best for a good recovery,

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

Beginning to think we won't see much of Plasma 6.x in Kubuntu 24.10 until August, when Neon is set to rebase onto Ubuntu 24.04.1

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

FWIW - KDE just pushed Plasma 6.1.0 out of the nest.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.0/

[NoWorries]

It is now just 4 Months before the Release of Oracular Oriole 24.10.

It is not surprising that the initial development of Oracular was rather slow considering the effort by developers to get the 24.04 LTS finished and worthy to be released. In the last month the development pace of Oracular has increased in the applications areas and Frameworks.

Now for the progress by developers since its first release.

	1st Release Status	4 Months To Go
KDE Plasma Version	5.27.11	5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version	5.115	5.116
QT Version	5.15.13	5.15.13
Application Version	4:23.08.3	4:23.08.5
Kernel Version	6.8.0-31-generic	6.8.0-31-generic

As you can see Frameworks and Applications have only been update.

Since Oracular is based on a very stable release we can now enjoy and appreciate the excellent work done by the developers. I also look forward, in anticipation, to their progress in the coming month.

[acheron]

Qt 6.6 should be landing in oracular release pocket soon.

[Schwarzer Kater]

I just had another quick look at Kubuntu 24.10 development branch today - not too much has changed:

KDE Plasma	5.27.11
KDE Frameworks*	5.116
KDE Gear**	23.08.5
Qt	5.15.13
Mesa	24.0.8
Kernel	6.8.0-31

^* = KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.
^** = Over 180 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Applications like the Dolphin file manager, the Kate text editor or the screenshot utility Spectacle belong to them.
KDE Gear is not the same as the KDE Applications but a subset and part of them.

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

What is the current state of 24.10 development branch? Has anything changed (I have not had any time to look again…)?

Nothing too shiny yet:-

• Kernel - 6.0.8-31.31 (same as Noble)
• QT - mostly 5.15.13-1 but bits of 6.4.2-5build3 & 6.6.2-1 have begun arriving (Schedule says this began May 2nd)
• KDE Plasma - 5.27.11
• KDE Applications - 23.08.5
• KDE Framework - 5.115.0 (Schedule says we should start seeing v6 arriving from today)

Source - https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/d...amd64.manifest

[Schwarzer Kater]

GPT = GUID Partition Table
MBR = Master boot record and normally also contains the partition table


PS:
If somebody is interested Qqmike has written very detailed threads about those things and more, for example:
UEFI, GPT, ESP, GRUB2-EFI, dual-booting, fixing things
and
GRUB 2: A Guide for Users.


What is the current state of 24.10 development branch? Has anything changed (I have not had any time to look again…)?