Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS

DESCRIPTION

The Long Term Support (LTS) version of the Ubuntu operating system for desktop PCs and laptops, Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS comes with five years of security and maintenance updates, guaranteed.

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Introduction

These release notes for Ubuntu 14.04.3 (Trusty Tahr) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Ubuntu 14.04.3 and its flavors. For details of the changes applied since 14.04.2, please see the 14.04.3 change summary. The release notes for 14.04, 14.04.1, and 14.04.2 are available as well.

Upgrading from a previous release

Upgrading is not recommended because of various bugs. One of those bugs is 1284635. But, if you still prefer to perform an upgrade, follow these instructions:

To upgrade from Ubuntu Studio 13.10 using GUI tools:

• Open Software Sources.
• Press Alt+F2 and type in "update-manager" (without the quotes) into the command box.
• Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '14.04 LTS' is available.
• Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

To upgrade from Ubuntu Studio 13.10 using CLI tools:

• Install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed.
• Launch the upgrade tool with the command sudo do-release-upgrade.
• Follow the on-screen instructions.

Feature Changes for 14.04 LTS

• New installer ubiquity plugin which allows you to select packages to install from our workflow metas, audio, video, graphics, photography and publishing.
• linux-lowlatency is now merged with linux-generic master branch, which means the two are almost identical feature wise. linux-lowlatency continues to be configured for preemtiveness and irq threading and depends on the rtirq script.
• EFI support
• gtk3 indicator support in the panel
• IBus was dropped (1284635)
• Speech-dispatcher and espeak were added, in addition to Orca and brltty, to further improve accessibility with braille and speech support during installation.