• Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) progress

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    Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) progress

    Date:
    Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:30:37 +0000

    Description:
    Matthieu Clemenceau has published a status update on Ubuntu25.04 (Plucky Puffin) development to the Ubuntu
    Discourse forum. This includes updates on Ubuntu's adoption
    of Dracut as an alternative to initramfs-tools , a move to
    a single ISO for arm64 devices rather than device-specific images, and reverting the planned O3 optimization flags for Plucky Puffin. Earlier in
    this cycle, we announced
    plans to enable the O3 optimization level for all Ubuntu packages
    by default. As part of this effort, we conducted extensive
    benchmarking, which revealed that while some workloads saw
    improvements, overall system performance slightly declined, and binary
    sizes increased. Given these results, we are likely to revert this
    change soon. The beta for Ubuntu 25.04 is planned for March27, with the final release scheduled on April 17.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1013386/


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