Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla has been released on the nine-month schedule, with support until July 2021.
Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla has been released on the nine-month schedule, with support until July 2021. Ubuntu now has better Active Directory compatibility with fixes to adcli and realmd. Improvement in Server Message Block version 3 (SMBv3) encryption performance has been achieved by switching to GnuTLS. The Gorilla comes with upgrades to LLVM and a number of languages, including Java, C, Rust, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl, and Go. Other features include:
Linux kernel 5.8 with updates
Libvirt updated to version 6.6.
Liburing asynchronous I/O support for Qemu and Samba
Telegraf logging, monitoring, and alerting stack
XFS online repair
Btrfs RAID1 with three and four copies
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