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.

Ubuntu Studio 13.04 Raring Ringtail reaches EOL 27th of January, 2014. This means there will be no more updates to that release, so if you are still running it, now would be a good time to think about upgrading.

Dear Ubuntu Studio users,

I’m very pleased and excited to announce the second and final beta release of Ubuntu Studio 13.10 (Saucy Salamander).

Users will be complimented with this beta release, as it comes with great improvements (compared to 13.04), including:

* A new menu structure which works on any desktop environment. Len Ovens and Mish did a great job on moviing 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.
Grub fixes

* 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.

In addition, we have fixed some upgrade bugs from 13.04 to 13.10 Beta 2, so the process of upgrading should be smooth now.

Please do note that the beta images are NOT recommend for users who want a stable system. Only if you want to try out the latest features should you install this release.

The images are available for download at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/saucy/beta-2/. The release notes are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Beta2/UbuntuStudio.

We hope you enjoy this new release!

Regards,
Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
Ubuntu Studio Release Manager