Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed "Oracular Oriole", is here. This release
continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and
greatest open-source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use
Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle,
partnering with the community and our partners, to introduce new
features and fix bugs.

Ubuntu 24.10 features the latest Linux 6.11 kernel for improved
performance and hardware support, marking a shift to a more aggressive
kernel version selection policy going forward.

Building on our previous LTS efforts around performance engineering,
Ubuntu 24.10 now includes kdump-tools on relevant platforms for
automatic kernel crashdumps. The default desktop installation also
includes sysprof for application and workload profiling.

Ubuntu Desktop delivers GNOME 47 with improvements to performance,
user experience and enhanced touchscreen support. The
power-profiles-daemon improves power management for AMD CPUs and GPUs
while libfprint adds support for many new fingerprint reader devices.
Ubuntu Desktop now defaults to Wayland on devices with NVIDIA graphics
cards and defaults to the NVIDIA 560 open driver version.

Snap management has also been improved on desktop with better update
management and messaging in both the dock and the App Center,
alongside an experimental new permissions prompting feature which can
be enabled in the new Security Center application.

Valkey now replaces Redis in Ubuntu 24.10 with a configuration
migration package to support the transition. As always Ubuntu provides
updated toolchains for GCC, LLVM, Rust, Golang and .Net alongside TCK
certified packages for OpenJDK 21 and 17.