It was supposed to arrive two weeks ago, but it was delayed without Canonical giving any reason. In any case, the company that Mark Shuttleworth runs launched yesterday Ubuntu 20.04.1, what is the first point update of the latest LTS version of the operating system that it develops. But, as Debian also reports in every such update, this is not a full new version of the system, so existing users do not have to pay special attention to this news.
What is actually a point update like this is a new ISO image It contains all the improvements that have been made in the last three months. And it is that in each new release new features are introduced, but also unexpected guests in the form of bugs that are polishing over time. For this reason, there are many who wait these three months to update to a new version of Ubuntu. Those of us who installed it in April already received the updates when they were ready.
Ubuntu 20.04.1 includes the improvements introduced in the last three months in a new ISO
Right now, all the official Ubuntu flavors, and almost all the unofficial ones like Ubuntu Unity or Ubuntu Cinnamon, already offer 20.04.1 from their web pages, which means that the launch is official. Among the new features, we have fixes in the installer, performance improvements and all the security patches that have been introduced in the last 90 days, including those for the Linux 5.4 kernel.
Moreover, from now on can now be officially updated from Ubuntu 18.04, and it is worth noting that KDE neon, which is still based on Bionic Beaver, will do the same in the next few hours.
Ubuntu 20.04 I arrive on April 23, 2020, with changes such as the aforementioned Linux 5.4, improvements in ZFS, support for Wireguard, for which they had to make a backport from Linux 5.6, and new versions of the graphical environments, being the main version GNOME 3.36.
Hello people,
I have version 18.04.4 LTS, what should I do to update to 20? Will I lose my files by doing so?
Thanks for your answers