Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) officially released
Today, April 13, 2017, Canonical officially released the final version of Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus). Since Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) was released last October, it has been in development for almost 6 months.
If until today, you have been using Ubuntu 16.10 on your computer, then it is time to upgrade to Ubuntu 17.04, which is a powerful distribution, "internal and external." It is driven by the latest stable Linux 4.10 kernel and is equipped with the latest graphics stack based on X.org server 1.19.3 and Mesa 17.0.3.
The three new technologies mentioned above are the only reason why people who use AMD’s Radeon graphics cards to play games need to upgrade to Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) immediately. But Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) is only equipped with the latest components and applications.
The default desktop environment of Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) is still Unity 7, so your favorite Ubuntu desktop environment has not disappeared at this moment. In the future Ubuntu 17.10, Unity is still available, and Ubuntu 17.10 will start development next month. After that, starting from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, will use the GNOME desktop by default.
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- Use Unity 7 desktop by default*
Ubuntu 17.04 has some new features:
- Driver-free printing
- Swap file
- No longer supports 32-bit PPC architecture
Along with other interesting technologies, it is loaded on the final release of Ubuntu 17.04. The most worth mentioning is the swap file, which can be used to replace the swap partition for newly installed systems. So if you upgrade from a previous Ubuntu release, this is the only place where it doesn't apply.
In addition, the default DNS resolver is converted to systemd-resolved. IPP Everywhere and Apple AirPrint printers support driver-free out of the box. Most packages from the GNOME family have been upgraded to GNOME 3.24, and only Nautilus remains at the GNOME 3.20.4 version.
The gconf tool is no longer installed by default because it has now been replaced by gsettings. Most of the installed applications are the latest, such as LibreOffice 5.3 office suite, Mozilla Firefox 52.0.1 Web browser, and Mozilla Thunderbird 45.8.0 email and news client.
- Nautilus file manager*
Starting from this release, the 32-bit PowerPC (PPC) architecture is no longer supported, and future releases will no longer support it. But PPC64el (PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian) will continue to support. Now, the 64-bit (amd64) and 32-bit ISO (i386) images of download Ubuntu 17.04 are available from our website.
Other Ubuntu flavors are also released today, including Ubuntu GNOME 17.04, Ubuntu MATE 17.04, Kubuntu 17.04, Xubuntu 17.04, Lubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu Kylin 17.04, Ubuntu Studio 17.04 and Ubuntu Budgie 17.04. This is also the official Ubuntu flavor of the Budgie desktop The first appearance of the version.
Please note that Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) is a short-lived branch that only supports 9 months of security updates, from today to mid-January 2018.