Ubuntu 20.10 codename Groovy, the latest release of Ubuntu is due this week on October 22th. The first release candidate ISOs are available on the ISO tracker. Major blockers have been squashed but there may be more candidates if anyone find release critical issues .
Please join the effort to help test Ubuntu and all its flavours to get closer to a final image for the release on Thursday 22th October 2020.
A new candidate is ready for testing on the tracker (image 20201021)
The major change is shim-signed to fix bug 1869187 Another change is the slideshow for Ubuntu Kylin.
The full changelog of this images is:
shim-signed
shim-signed (1.45) groovy; urgency=medium
Merge back changes from focal that got lost in the shim revert, as
groovy carried on from the reverted 1.41 upload and did not merge
back 1.40.{1,2,3}:
Depend on the correct version of grub-signed (LP: #1871895)
Install grub to multiple ESPs (LP: #1871821)
Pass --timeout -1 to mokutil in a separate mokutil run (LP: #1869187),
thanks to Aleksander Miera for the patch.
shim-signed (1.44) groovy; urgency=medium
Set XB-Important: yes and Protected: yes on shim-signed package
so that it cannot be removed by accident (LP: #1898729)
shim-signed (1.43) groovy; urgency=medium
Add download-signed script from linux-signed package
Construct and ship dual-signed shim.
ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (163)
Adjust the slideshow for Ubuntu Kylin groovy.
freetype (2.10.2+dfsg-3ubuntu1)
SECURITY UPDATE: heap buffer overflow via integer truncation in
Load_SBit_Png
debian/patches/CVE-2020-15999.patch: Update src/sfnt/pngshim.c to
test and reject invalid bitmap size earlier in Load_SBit_Png. Based on
upstream patch.
CVE-2020-15999
snapd (2.47.1+20.10.1)
cherry-pick PR#9516 to fix docker and multipass snaps
with apparmor3 (LP: #1898038)
The freshest Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE 20.10 ISOs 20201021.2 are booting with muted sound on my Lenovo SL500 and other laptop from bug-report below - https://pad.lv/1897934
Fix the failure on init the HDA-Intel sound card, because there is no init mixer values in the ucm, the alsa-lib should return error and then let alsautils init this sound card in the legacy HDA way. (LP: #1897934)
We are waiting for this package to migrate to trigger a respin.