Ubuntu 13.10 was released on schedule on October 17th, 2013. It includes the first release of Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu Core for 64-bit ARM systems.
Ubuntu 13.10 was released on schedule on October 17th, 2013.
Ubuntu 13.10 introduces the first release of Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu Core for the new 64-bit ARM systems (the "arm64" architecture, also known as AArch64 or ARMv8), and improved AppArmor confinement. In addition to these flagship features there are also major updates throughout.
Ubuntu Server 13.10 includes the Havana release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications - whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86 or ARM servers, or on developer laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to Ceph, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features.
Maintenance updates will be provided for Ubuntu 13.10 for 9 months, through July 2014.
-- Quote from the release notification posted on October 17th.
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