Ubuntu 17.04 development has already started

One of the most popular distributions in the world Gnu / Linux has made a great announcement today but also a news expected by all. Following the release of Ubuntu Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu development team has started Ubuntu 17.04 development also known as Zesty Zapus.

For those who had doubts about the name, definitely the new version will be called Zesty Zapus, this is how we have known it in the files created for the new development. However, the nickname of Zesty Zapus is not the only new thing that the new version will have.

In this new version, according to the developer Klose, the ARM64 and ARMhf GCC will be versions built by the Linaro branch of GCC, something that supposes a great change in development after the incorporation of Boost 1.62 and the OpenMPI libraries.

The development of Ubuntu 17.04 has already started but its official calendar is not there

The Ubuntu 17.04 development schedule is not yet known to us, but since it is not an LTS version, we imagine that the schedule will be similar to previous versions of Ubuntu. Being at the end of April when we have this version on our computers. Thus, quite possibly between April 20 and April 27 we will have the official launch. The first beta, taking into account previous calendars, would be at the beginning of March, approximate dates. Although we must emphasize that the official calendar is not yet available.

But surely many of you will not wait for the calendar or development dates but will wait for the news of the distribution, news that are still foreign to us. But this change in the ARM versions makes me think that Canonical and Ubuntu will focus on improving their version for SBC boards, including Raspberry Pi, the famous free board that so much community has behind it.