If you would like to lend a hand to the volunteer project Ubuntu Studio, this is the perfect time. It’s Beta testing time!

You’ll need to at least get yourself an account at launchpad.net, and subscribe to our devel mail list in order to assist.

Read more about how to do testing in this post to our devel mail list.

This release will only be supported for 9 months. Beginning with this release we are recommending our users to stick with the latest LTS release (currently 14.04), since we will be focusing our support on the LTS releases.

Nevertheless, we continue to publish a new release every six months. And a new LTS every two years. This is our latest non-LTS release.

Many applications have been updated, but probably the most notable change with this release is ALSA firewire support, as of linux version 3.16. Trusty users will get the benefit of this as well, since linux-lowlatency will be backported to Trusty later.

You can find the ISOs at our Download Page

Release Notes

This is another point release of 12.04 Precise Pangolin, with the latest updates.

If you already have 12.04 installed, you will have all the latest updates if you’ve kept your system up to date, so no need to do a fresh install.

You can find the ISOs at our download page https://ubuntustudio.org/download/.

A new point release of the Trusty Tahr LTS has been released. If you already have Ubuntu Studio Trusty installed, you will have the latest updates so no need to do a fresh install.

Ubuntu release notes: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes

We’re happy to announce our latest LTS release. Ubuntu Studio 14.04 will be supported for three years. Since it’s just out, you may experience some problems. Read about them under known issues.

Short list of new features:

• The installer has a new plugin which allows you to choose which packages to install out of our workflows: audio, video, graphics, photography and publishing, so you no longer need to install all the packages.
• linux-lowlatency code is now merged with linux-generic, so it’s better streamlined and follows all linux-generic changes more exactly.
• EFI support

Known Issues:

• Wrong default keyboard layout in login screen after installation. So, you need to manually change it at first login.
• Wrong default language in session after installation. Some combinations of language and keyboard layout may result in that the wrong default language is selected when first logging in. Needs to be changed manually (1308936).
• usb2/usb3 audio devices may perform badly (1308628)
• Xfce4 Power Manager does not restore screen power (1259339). You can try running xrandr, which has worked as a problem-free workaround for some users. Alternatively, to restore a working desktop go to TTY1 (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and restart lightdm with sudo service lightdm restart. NOTE: You will lose all unsaved work in progress! It appears that all instances of this bug so far are caused by suspending by closing the laptop lid – suspending from the logout dialog works to the best of our knowledge.
• Window manager shortcut keys don’t work after reboot (1292290)
• IBus is dropped from the default installation due to a high-influencing bug (1284635); the team looks to get this bug fixed soon and to reintroduce IBus in a future point release. If you are upgrading to 14.04 from a current version in which IBus is still installed but unused – you will need to either set-up IBus for your keyboard layout after rebooting or purge it. Alternatively purge IBus before upgrading.

Read the full release announcement at our wiki..

You can get the ISOs from our download page!

Want to help out?

We are always looking for contributors. No developing skills needed, and for those who do aspire to do developing, we will teach you. Just head over to ubuntustudio.org/contribute to find out how to get started.

Find any bugs?

If you find any bugs, please take the time to report them. Make the bug report as clear and specific as possible, and work together with developers on finding out what the problem is, so we can find a way to fix it.

The short story to creating a bug report – in a terminal do:

 ubuntu-bug <packagename>

The long story: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Ubuntu Studio 14.04 trusty tahr Beta 2 (final beta) is out.

You can get it at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/trusty/beta-2/

Some additions since previous releases:

• New installer option: package selection
• Uninstalling most of the packages in our workflow metas will no longer uninstall the meta itself
• New additions, mainly for our audio workflow, including all pd libs and synthv1, samplv1 as well as drumkv1

Please download and give it a try. If you find any bugs, please report them.

To report bugs, you need a launchpad account at launcpad.net. Then, in a the terminal, do:
ubuntu-bug <package-name>

Or visit http://launchpad.net/ubuntustudio and report your bug there.