Let’s go, folks — Ubuntu 24.10 daily builds are available for download.
Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’ officially opened for development earlier this week following the reveal of the official codename (more than window dressing the codename is a critical part of infrastructure setup) and a draft Ubuntu 24.10 release schedule.
As development has only just started there’s no compelling need to download an Ubuntu 24.10 daily build right now. The beginning of each Ubuntu development cycle is primarily made up of package churn with little “new” to enthuse over.
Of course, there’s certain to be a slew of new features in Ubuntu 24.10 to talk, but it’ll be a few weeks before they start trickling in — so keep your eyes peeled here, eh?
What are Ubuntu Daily Builds?
Ubuntu daily builds are pre-release versions of the distro intended solely for testing. As the name suggests, daily builds are generated daily though there are occasional pauses owing to release freezes, build failures, and other unintended snafus.
While Ubuntu daily builds are not supposed to be used as your main OS (they undergo automated testing but will contain bugs, development versions of software, half-finished features, and so on) they are a great way to try a release prior to its official release.
Indeed, many folks install a daily build then ‘ride’ the development cycle as if it were a rolling release, i.e. installing all updates as they’re released (and hoping nothing installed causes breakage, which isn’t a given).
Download Ubuntu 24.10 Daily Builds
You can download Ubuntu 24.10 daily builds from the Ubuntu cdimage website.
- Daily builds in ‘current’ have passed automated testing
- Daily builds in ‘pending’ are, well, pending testing
At the time of this writing, Ubuntu 24.10 builds are still labeled as pending, rather than current. This signifies that they have not undergone automated testing to guarantee bootability, so bear this in mind if you choose to use them!
I advise using images solely from the current folder, unless there is a necessary change or package that will only be available in the pending images when you need to test.
Both versions are ordinary ISOs that can be booted in a virtual machine (recommended), or flashed to a USB for testing the release on actual hardware.