Graham Inggs has announced that Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster is now open for development. The release of next version of Ubuntu Linux is scheduled for April 20, 2023.

Lunar Lobster is now open for development

We're pleased to announce that Lunar Lobster is now open for development. Auto-sync has been enabled and will run soon. As usual, we expect a large influx of builds and autopkgtests in this initial period, which will cause delays. Please help with fixing any breakage that occurs.



The release schedule can be found at:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/lunar-lobster-release-schedule/
We have opened the archive with Python 3.11 as supported, OpenJDK 17 as the default and the Perl 5.36 transition is underway. There are a good number of packages in lunar-proposed that need fixing for these additions.

Please check your uploads in a lunar chroot. See [1] or [2] for details on how to set up such a development chroot.

See the release schedule page for information about any major changes and for all milestone dates.

Graham

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SimpleSbuild
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot