Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)New Features

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)

Download Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet):Images can be downloaded from a location near you.

You can download ISOs from:http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/ (Ubuntu Desktop and Server) http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/15.04/release/ (Ubuntu Cloud Server) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/15.04/ (Ubuntu Netboot) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/15.04/release/ (Ubuntu Core)

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/15.04/release/ (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/15.04/release/ (Lubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/15.04/release/ (Ubuntu Studio) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/15.04/release/ (Ubuntu GNOME) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/15.04/release/ (UbuntuKylin) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/15.04/release/ (Ubuntu MATE) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/15.04/release/ (Xubuntu)

Updated Packages

As with every new release, packages--applications and software of all kinds--are being updated at a rapid pace. Many of these packages came from an automatic sync from Debian's unstable branch; others have been explicitly pulled in for Ubuntu 15.04.

Linux kernel 3.19

The Ubuntu 15.04 release delivers a v3.19 based kernel.

Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop

Unity:

Unity has had many bugs fixed and new features added. Locally integrated menus are now available for unfocussed windows. There have been a number of usability improvements to the dash.

Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop

General:

Firefox is updated to version 36 and Chromium is updated to version 41.

Most of the Gnome platform is now based on version 3.14.

Pulseaudio is updated to version 6 paving the way for a move to Bluez5 next release.

Ubuntu 15.04 Desktop

LibreOffice:

LibreOffice 4.4 brings a lot of improvements including improved change tracking in Writer, improve mail merge performance, improved shapes which can now have fully formatted content with tables etc, more statistics functions in Calc, improved OpenGL support for slide transitions in Impress and Draw, password protected documents in Impress. Support for digital signed PDF exports has been added, as has support for connecting to Sharepoint and OneDrive. Many new multimedia formats are supported including .ra, .rm, .dv, .ac3, .opus, .asf, and .m4a.

Ubuntu 15.04 DesktopUbuntu Make:

Ubuntu Make continues to add support for new platforms, bringing the total to 15 (from 1 last release). This includes highlights such as:

➔ Android NDK support and bumped Android Studio to latest version

➔ Other new IDEs: IDEA (ultimate and community editions), pycharm (professional, educational and community editions), webstorm, rubymine, phpstorm and eclipse

➔ Golang compiler support

➔ Firefox developer edition

➔ Dartlang editor

➔ Stencyl game development platform

➔ Numerous usability improvements and accessibility (ppa, doc)

Ubuntu 15.04 ServerKnown issues:

As is to be expected, with any release, there are some significant known bugs that users may run into with this release of Ubuntu 15.04. The ones we know about at this point (and some of the workarounds), are documented here so you don't need to spend time reporting these bugs again:

Boot, installation and post-install:

➔ The installer currently has a bug where after the installation is complete, the installation medium will eject, but you will be unable to press ENTER to reboot. Powering off and back on should boot you into your installed system. This will be fixed before final release and is being tracked in bug #1436715

Ubuntu 15.04 Server

Boot, installation and post-install:

➔ The OEM installer has a bug wherein the "oem" user isn't correctly removed when preparing the system for shipment to the end user. Due to this bug, it is highly recommended that the beta images are *not* used for OEM installs, though we generally don't recommend using anything but release images for OEM installs anyway. This is being tracked in bug #1436937

➔ The amd64 (Intel x86 64bit) images specifically targeted at Apple hardware (amd64+mac) are no longer produced. Most Apple computers are now capable of booting the amd64 image directly using the EFI (not legacy) boot method so long as their firmware is up to date. If for some reason your hardware doesn't boot properly using the amd64 image, make sure you don't have a pending EFI update and if that still doesn't work, then patch the 64-bit ISO using the software in bug #1298894 (tested working on Macbook 2,1). Alternatively, simply use the i386 (32bit) image instead.

Ubuntu 15.04 Server

Boot, installation and post-install:

➔ Due to changes in syslinux, it is not currently possible to use usb-creator from 14.04 and earlier releases to write USB images for 14.10; we believe that it is also not possible to use usb-creator from a 14.10 system to write USB images for earlier releases. For now the workaround is to use a matching release of Ubuntu to write the images, but we intend to issue updates soon to work around this incompatibility. 1325801

➔ On OEM installation the temporary OEM user is not removed after the end user setup (LP:1436937), the 2 accounts co-exist and OEM is selected by default on first login. On UEFI systems, at the end of the end user setup, the graphical environment fails to come up due to crashes of either Xorg or unity-settings-daemon LP:1436861. Upon reboot the system works fine. These issues will be fixed before final release.

Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet)

Official flavours:The release notes for the official flavours can be found at the following links:

Kubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes/KubuntuLubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu

Ubuntu GNOME https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOMEUbuntu Kylin https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylinUbuntu MATE https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuMATEUbuntu Studio https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudioXubuntu https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseNotes/Xubuntu