I am running with ubuntu 24 and gnome
I am wondering if I should upgrade to ubuntu 25. I upgraded from 22 to 24 and that was a bad idea (at the time). This time I thought I might ask the question. If I should I would also appreciate a thought on what the best way it would be to upgrade.
Thank you…
Probably only you can truly answer this, but I’ve tended to approach this from the perspective of is there something that I want to test out (a new version of Gnome for example), a particular kernel that is only available in the next release, or just genuinely curious about things being shopped for the next LTS.
As for upgrades, I only install the LTS’ these days. I always update from the CLI. You can do it through the GUI as well, I personally prefer the CLI (but that doesn’t other ways are wrong).
The server documentation has the process: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/software/upgrade-your-release/
If you are thinking of upgrading without doing a new install of Ubuntu 25.04, I suggest you run:
do-release-upgrade -c
to check what’s available. Your 24.04 should be set to notify of any new release that’s available before running the command. I get this today with 24.04:
dmn@Zotac:/etc/update-manager$ do-release-upgrade -c
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
New release ‘24.10’ available.
Run ‘do-release-upgrade’ to upgrade to it.
You can try what it suggests, but I think it might be incorrect information, as 24.10 is now unsupported since July 10. If so, there is no upgrading possible right now without doing a fresh install.
Personally, I have been upgrading to each new release as it comes since 22.10 (last new install). I see no good reason to wait 2 years.
I’ve adjusted your title to refer to actual Ubuntu releases.
I’ll suggest ensuring you read what @Dennis_N wrote, as I’ve seen reports of issues when users attempted to upgrade from 24.04 to 25.04, but suddenly find themselves on 24.10 which is EOL.
My 2c views are
Thanks for the reply…
today my updater told me that I can update to 24.10 so I pressed the button to update. I don’t think anything happened. That being the case I will wait until tomorrow and the find another way to upgrade.
Thoughts?
Hello,
now that we are almost 1 quarter away from the new LTS release, I do not think that it’s a nice idea for the upgrade you are mentioning. If I were in your shoes (and since you mention about upgrading and not installing anew) stick with what you have and you will be able to upgrade in one year from now, when 26.04 will be released.
The path is either 24.04 directly to 26.04, meaning from LTS to LTS or 24.04 → 24.10, 25.04 for the time being since 25.10 has not been released yet.
If you pressed the button you mention, I suppose that the upgrade should have taken place, unless something happened in the process and reverted back to the 24.04 version.
On the other hand if you haven’t tampered too much with your current version, you have ssd and a fast internet connection, you could try it and check what has changed in the new versions.
Regards!
You can check to see the current version you are running with this command
cat /etc/os-release
I think if you upgrade to odd-year releases or dot 10 (.10) releases, your goal is to test the latest and help the Community by reporting bugs you find, using the prescribed bug reporting process.
The LTS versions are your stable, 5-year support versions for production systems.
Playing around with non-LTS releases is sometimes fun to do in a VM.
I am running with ubuntu 24.04.2
My software updater tells me I can update to 24.10 I press the update and nothing happens. Then I tried sudo apt upgrade - nothing happened.
Thoughts?
@drufus2002 I deleted the topic you just created because it is duplicating what you are trying to resolve here.
It dilutes community effort if there are multiple posts on the same subject.
Different users in this topic have offered suggestions on how to check what versions are available and how to upgrade.
Please go through them again, let us know specifically which ones you tried and which not.
Only then can we advise on the next steps.
Thanks for understanding.
If nothing happens, that can mean your current system is not up to date. I’ve had this happen too a few times. I just tested in a VM of U 2404 to see if the update is still possible, even after the end of support date. I used software updater instead of terminal, since I know there is a point where I can back out. I clicked through screens as far as the attached image (it’s the last chance to cancel the upgrade). The upgrade to 24.10 appears to be possible.
If this works for you, you should immediately upgrade the packages in the 24.10, and then upgrade the system once more to 25.04.
P.S. - wondering now if a direct upgrade 24.04 → 25.04 will be offered when the 24.10 upgrade is no longer possible.
Thank you for all the replies!
I have kinda given up on all upgrades. I am going to backoff for about a week. Then I will make a run at 24.10 I also agree, there is something wrong with my system. I am now thinking asking google if there are helpful commands that might help an ubuntu computer and see what I get.
Thanks again!!!
Understand that the update window to 24.10 may close at anytime. So, as the saying goes, “time is of the essence” for that.
When it (24.10 upgrade) closes; Ubuntu 24.04 should release-upgrade direct to 25.04, which isn’t really a loss to me.
The main benefit of 24.04 to 24.10 was the QA + CI performed (likewise 24.10 to 25.04); where 24.04 to 25.04 really only gets CI testing.
No, that won’t happen. You can’t skip an interim release in order to upgrade an LTS release to a following interim release.
“You cannot skip interim releases when upgrading from an LTS release to another interim release. If you start from an LTS release (for example, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) and wish to move to a later interim release (such as 23.10), you must upgrade in sequence through each intervening release: LTS → 22.10 → 23.04 → 23.10. Skipping interim releases is not supported, and upgrades must proceed step by step through each available version in order.”
–source Perplexity AI
You are probably right. My problem is pretty simple. I have, now, gone to my Software Updater at least 3 times and punched the upgrade button (nothing) and then sudo apt update. So, for some reason ubuntu is not going to update me to 24.004.10 no matter what (I currently have ubuntu 24.04.2 which my Software Updater got me a while ago.
I guess I will simply wait and see what happens (if anything)
If you’re using AI, you need to check to see if it’s valid now, and not working from facts that yes maybe did exist (as in this case); but existed long ago and have changed.
Ubuntu non-LTS releases used to provide 15 months of support, that was shortened some time ago to 9 months, and subsequent to that, the release-upgrade rules changed.
Modified rules have you being able to release-upgrade from the LTS to the next non-LTS release in the next LTS cycle (LTS cycles are two years, broken down into four six month segments with 3 non-LTS stable releases made during this time); which means when 24.10 goes EOL; a release-upgrade from 24.04 will go instead of 25.04.
Once on the non-LTS cycle however, you must release-upgrade through all releases (of that LTS cycle). The skip is only possible when on LTS and going to the next non-LTS in the next LTS cycle.
Will this process be changed (again), maybe!
Almost all Quality Assurance testing by users goes through each cycle, and NOT the skipping I describe here, but the Continuous Intergration testing is performed on these release-upgrades; so I tend personally to think of them as a fallback option (ie. not my first choice).
Perplexity’s information appears to be incorrect (see it’s answer in post #13). Today, doing the check things have flipped:
dmn@Tyana-vm:~$ do-release-upgrade -c
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
New release ‘25.04’ available.
Run ‘do-release-upgrade’ to upgrade to it.
To be sure, I then started the upgrade from 24.04, and reached the same point. So, it’s going to work unless it fails after click on “start upgrade”, but I’m not going there to find out.
Looking at Perplexity’s listed sources it appears to have quoted advice from this two-year-old Reddit thread
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