Ubuntu 23.04, code-named “Lunar Lobster”, has released a specific schedule. As you can see from the table, Ubuntu 23.04 is scheduled to be released on April 20, 2023. This will be Canonical’s 38th major Ubuntu release, and it’s an interim release that only supports software and security updates for nine months until January 2024.

With the upload of the toolchain at the end of October, Ubuntu 23.04 officially begins a six-month development and testing cycle, and will be functionally frozen on February 23 next year, and the first beta version will be available for public testing on March 30, 2023. .

The software plan for this version is not known at this time, on the one hand, The default package for Ubuntu 23.04 should be GCC 13, Python 3.11, GNU Binutils 2.40, GNU C Library 2.37, OpenLDAP 2.6, Go 1.20, and PolicyKit 122, which are all in Ubuntu 23.04 Released before feature freeze.On the other hand, the Linux 6.2 kernel will be released in early to mid-February next year, LLVM 16 will be released on March 16, and GNOME 44 will be released on March 22. Looking at the timeline, Ubuntu 23.04 should not catch up with these latest versions.

More details can be found on the Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster release schedule.