Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released

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Codenamed "Yakkety Yak", Ubuntu 16.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.  The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.8-based kernel, a switch to gcc-6, and much more.

Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and stability improvements to Unity.

Ubuntu Server 16.10 includes the Newton release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications - whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86, ARM, or POWER servers, z System mainframes, or on developer laptops.  Several key server technologies, from MAAS to juju, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features.

The newest Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu are also being released today.  More details can be found for these at their individual release notes:

   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes#Official_flavours

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 16.10.

To get Ubuntu 16.10
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In order to download Ubuntu 16.10, visit:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/download

Users of Ubuntu 16.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 16.10 if they have selected to be notified of all releases, rather than just LTS upgrades.  For further information about upgrading, see:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on the release itself. They are available at:

   http://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes

Find out what's new in this release with a graphical overview:

   http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
   http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/features