Lucid Alpha 3 released

news · February 25, 2010

Welcome to Lucid Lynx Alpha 3, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Pre-releases of Lucid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable

system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even

frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and

those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 3 is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be

released throughout the Lucid development cycle. The Alpha images are

known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while

representing a very recent snapshot of Lucid. You can download it here:

Alpha 3 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider

information on changes in Ubuntu.

NOTE: if you installed Lucid prior to Alpha 3, you may have libmysqlclient16

7.0.9-1 installed. This package was present in the Ubuntu archive by mistake

and was retracted, but because it has a later version number than the real

libmysqlclient16 package, the real package will not be installed

automatically on upgrade. To ensure that you have the official package

installed on your Lucid system and will receive security support for it

throughout Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, please run:

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient16/lucid

and follow the instructions.

This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a

list of known bugs (that you don't need to report if you encounter), please

see:

If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop

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