Dear Ubuntu Studio users,

The Ubuntu Studio team proudly announces the immediate release of Ubuntu Studio 13.10.

This exciting release incorporates the new features listed below.

* A new menu structure which works on any desktop environment. Len Ovens and Mish did a great job on moving various apps to the right submenu and creating new menu icons.

* A new package named ubuntustudio-installer, which allows any person to install our metapackages and can fit into any desktop environment.

* Instead of a settings menu, we have fitted in a new Settings Manager, with all settings in one place.

* When you are in the GRUB Menu, the boot item for Ubuntu Studio will show “Ubuntu Studio” instead of “Ubuntu”. Also, the latest -lowlatency kernel will be always the default boot item in the GRUB boot loader.

* The XFCE session in the LightDM is removed to avoid any confusion with the Ubuntu Studio session.

* A new wallpaper, made by our artwork lead, Zak Frappan.

* The linux-lowlatency kernel has been updated to upstream Linux kernel version 3.11.3.

* We have added GNOME Orca for accessibility purposes, and also Ardour 3 for audio production.

Please download the image, available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/13.10/release.

We strongly recommend users currently using Ubuntu Studio 13.04 to upgrade to this release.

You are free to read the release notes in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio. The release notes contain instructions to upgrade, and information that might be useful for users.

Ubuntu Studio 13.10 will be supported for 9 months. User support is available in the Ubuntu Forums, #ubuntustudio IRC channel on Freenode IRC Network, and also at our mailing list, ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com.

We sincerely hope that you enjoy this release, and thank you for using Ubuntu Studio.

Best wishes,

Howard Chan (smartboyhw)

Ubuntu Studio Release Manager

On behalf of the Ubuntu Studio Team