Mostly for informational purposes, but that isn’t the intended way to release-upgrade a Ubuntu system (Debian yes, not Ubuntu), though its required for the first few hours/days before the new development release was fully functional (ie. in the days of October 2023 just after release of 23.10 before noble gets added to https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-development where its no longer required)
You can view our testing checklist on this site where we list the QA tested commands used to release-upgrade a Lubuntu system, ie.
¹ do-release-upgrade -d -m desktop -f DistUpgradeViewKDE
² do-release-upgrade -d
Those commands are how we QA test an upgrade to noble (from mantic, and much later from jammy to noble too) and have been functional for some time now.
I don’t see a system as pre-alpha, to me anyway, it reaches alpha when the noble infrastructure is fully functional & dailies start being produced.
All QA testing is helpful where bug reports are found & reported. Most reported are often fixed in mere days (eg. here, but the team cannot fix issues unless reported. Some recent reports include
- calamares language issue
- lubuntu-installer-prompt restart can kill calamares
- minimal install (thus no
firefox) can’t report bugs due to lack of browser (xdg-open error)
but none of those will impact an install where a users doesn’t ‘play with things’ during their install.
Thank you @este.el.paz for upgrading, and please report all issues you find!
FYI: Lubuntu noble is my daily system & the last issue I recall was end-August during the mantic cycle; so it’s been good for me 