After more than 5 months of development in which we have been able to test their Daily Build, Canonical and all the teams that develop official flavors have launched a few hours ago, and a day later than expected, their versions of Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur. While still being preliminary software, it is already mature enough to allow anyone who wants to try it to work with the peace of mind of being faced with something more stable, although there are still three weeks in which they will continue polishing the system.
Ubuntu 23.10 already has two of the main new features that it will bring: on the one hand, the kernel, Linux 6.5 that I arrive at the end of August; on the other hand, the desktop GNOME 45 has already arrived this same week. What has not arrived yet is support for DEB packages in the Application Center (App Center in English), which remains just a modernized Snap Store that we cannot use in Spanish either.
Ubuntu 23.10 will arrive on October 12
That support, essential to not limit the possibilities, will arrive, or so they promised. Which support for flatpak packages will not arrive, something that is already the case in the current Ubuntu Software. For years, Ubuntu users who want to install flatpak packages have had to do so from the terminal or by installing GNOME Software and the plugin, a recommendation that we leave for anyone who wants to pick it up. There are official flavors that do support this type of "next generation" packages, or at least better than the GNOME edition.
Ubuntu 23.10beta it can be downloaded from this link. For the rest of the flavors, the ISO images can be downloaded from their respective websites, but also from cdimage.ubuntu.com choosing a flavor/releases/23.10 or mantic/beta.
Among the new features of the main flavor (GNOME), the Linux kernel 6.5, GNOME 45 stands out, Firefox will use the Wayland version by default, it can be installed in ZFS and in general all flavors will include GCC 13, GNU Binutils 2.41, PHP 8.2, glibc 2.38, Go 1.20 and LLVM 17. Stable versions will arrive on October 12.