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With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released<\/a> and a long weekend upon us you might be planning to upgrade an existing Ubuntu install to the latest version.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

For one, \u201cofficially\u201d you can\u2019t since Ubuntu 24.04 LTS upgrades are not yet enabled, neither from Ubuntu 23.10 nor 22.04 LTS. <\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t stop folks from upgrading manually. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

They hear that a new version of Ubuntu is out and stable, they don\u2019t fancy the faff of a fresh install, and<\/em> they don\u2019t want to wait for the \u201cnew version available\u201d upgrade prompt to appear on their desktop.<\/p>\n

So they go to Google for a \u2018how to\u2019, learn about the sudo do-release-upgrade -d<\/code> command run it, and away they go.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe final release is stable so upgrading, even with the -d flag should be safe!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Right now there are major bugs impacting direct upgrades from earlier versions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

We’re talking “your system may become unrecoverable”<\/em> type issues.<\/p>\n

Snafus stem from the switch to Thunderbird<\/em> snap1<\/a><\/sup> (on installs with the DEB installed upgrading to 24.04 replaces it with the snap) and the complicated tangle of Y2028 time_t transitions2<\/a><\/sup> (anyone who used daily builds will be familiar with the pain they caused). <\/p>\n

Critical fixes are on the way<\/strong> but until they arrive and Ubuntu’s developers are able to re-test direct upgrades to verify they solve things (and don’t introduce further issues) official upgrades won’t be enabled and<\/em> CLI DIY upgrades are strictly not advised. <\/p>\n

As of writing this (before I depart for the weekend) those fixes aren’t in place. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

My advice for now is to forget what blogs say \u2014stones, glass houses, etc<\/em> \ud83d\ude05\u2014 and do not upgrade through any means until Ubuntu\u2019s engineers give the nod. <\/p>\n

Super-duper impatient? Suck it up and download the ISO and do a fresh install instead. Those are not<\/strong> affected by these issues and, on the plus side, you get to see all the fancy new things added to the installer. <\/p>\n

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  1. https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/bugs\/2061918<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/glib2.0\/+bug\/2063221<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Thanks Kim<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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