Beta Freeze
The beta freeze for Ubuntu kinetic kudu (22.10) was 26-Sept-2022, and the beta released on 29-Sept-2022.
Testing
Ubuntu, and flavors such as Lubuntu, are having a testing session during the week of 29 September 2022 - 6 October 2022, to encourage as many people as possible to help test our new beta, and help make it the best release yet of Lubuntu.
Of course you can grab a daily and test any day you like, and don’t have to limit yourself to just this week if you’re short on time.
How you test is up to you, you can download the daily (or beta), write to thumb-drive and boot and perform a live test on real hardware, or boot/install it in a VM. All testing is welcome.
Our Lubuntu member David (KGIII/uninvolved) has written about his own beta testing here on linux-tips and it’s worth a read.
Getting the download
You can download the Kinetic Kudu daily build here.
Recording the results
To record your testing, you’ll need a Launchpad/Ubuntu One login. Go here to create one if you haven’t already got one.
To look at all teams testsuites for jammy, though our install testcases can be found here, and the primary ISO and QA testing tracker can be found here.
Our current behavior when we run a QA-test install is to use the “Install using Calamares (entire disk)” testcase, where in the Comments section we use the first line to briefly list hardware used, the second line has an entry describing the testcase tested, like
Lenovo YG SL 7 14ITL05 i5-1135G7,16GB,Intel Iris Xe,WiFi, 512GB M2NVMe SSD
Testcase:UEFI+secure boot,no encryption,full disk with swap file,no Internet
which highlights it was a Secure uEFI install, no encryption, full disk with swap enabled, and no internet connected; all of which matches an testcase found on our checklist, this test performed by Lubuntu Council member Leó Kolbeinsson. (The second line can be copy/pasted from the testing checklist if helpful)
Another example is from Lubuntu member David/KGIII
MSI Modern 15 (Intel Core i5-10210U, Intel UHD, 32 GB RAM) .
How you describe your hardware is up to you, I get details from sudo lshw roughly in format
“Make model (cpu, ram, gpu)”
so my lenovo thinkpad x201 will show as
lenovo thinkpad x201 (i5-m520, 4gb, i915)
If you need help making sense of the testing checklist, then this wiki page may be helpful.
Known Issues
Please refer to Lubuntu kinetic kudu (22.10) issue tracker for a list of known issues. That won’t be exhaustive though, which is the purpose of beta testing; ie. let’s find those bugs.
Reporting bugs
Follow the directions in the testsuite. If it does all of those things, great! If it doesn’t, we do need your help. Please file a bug on your testing box, and record the bug ID in the Bug (or Critical Bug) section in the iso.qa.ubuntu.com page when complete.
Follow the directions in the bug report, and be as specific as you can. This is a key step - an unreported bug will be an unfixed bug. For details on reporting bugs please refer to our wiki page and don’t forget to include the bug report number in the iso.qa.ubuntu.com test report.
Questions?
If you have any questions, appropriate places to ask are of course, our discourse site or for faster responses please ask on IRC (#lubuntu-devel) or via our telegram channel
Testers can also chat live on IRC (#ubuntu-quality) or telegram (Ubuntu Testers).
Please note tests that complete okay with only minor issues should still be PASSED, but the bug ID reported in the “Bugs” section. If you consider it a show-stopper bug, record it in the “Critical bugs” section (failing the test if you believe absolutely necessary).
What’s New? and LXQt version
Lubuntu 22.10 will release with LXQt 1.1 (Release LXQt 1.1.0 | LXQt) with that link providing many clues as to what is new the latest release of LXQt.
If it’s a new install, you’ll be using the latest alpha release of Calamares 3.3 (Release Calamares 3.3.0 (alpha2) · calamares/calamares · GitHub).
Whilst the LXQt 1.1 has been available for jammy users for awhile now (via backports) thus we’re not expecting too many problems with the desktop, the installer is new, and still officially in alpha state, so all the testing performed there will be appreciated.
Thanks!
Thanks in advance to those of you who can help, and please reply on discourse with any issues, concerns, or questions!
ISO and QA testing tracker - http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/433/builds
ISO testcases can take as little as 30 minutes to complete (including filing a report on the iso.qa tracker), and whilst we have only a single testcase for installs on the iso.qa site, we have an expanded checklist you can see at https://phab.lubuntu.me/w/release-team/testing-checklist/
For details on the Ubuntu 22.10 Testing week, please see Ubuntu 22.10 Testing Week - Community - Ubuntu Community Hub