Ubuntu 22.10 features a variety of package updates and other improvements coming fresh off the 22.04 LTS cycle. Some of the Ubuntu 22.10 highlights include:
- GNOME 43 and other updated GNOME components now provide the default desktop environment, including the updated terminal and text editor defaults and other changes.
- Ubuntu 22.10 is powered by the Linux 5.19 kernel for providing a very fresh and out-of-the-box kernel experience with the latest hardware support.
- Canonical has made its Steam Snap available from the Ubuntu Software center and it ships with the latest Mesa driver support.
- PipeWire is now used over PulseAudio as the default audio platform.
- Improved RISC-V processor support.
- Various improvements for Ubuntu 22.10 on the Raspberry Pi including display/graphics upgrades and other enhancements.
- GCC 12 is the default system compiler of Ubuntu 22.10 and there are also compiler/toolchain upgrades for Rust, Go, and other programming languages.
- Ubuntu 22.10 ships with debuginfod integration and a remote debuginfod server for providing debugging objects on-demand.
- WebP image support out-of-the-box .
- Optimized OpenSSH server memory use .
- Ubuntu Unity is now an officially recognized flavor of Ubuntu .
Ubuntu 22.10 can be downloaded from ubuntu.com and additional 22.10 release details via the Ubuntu Blog . More Ubuntu 22.10 benchmarks coming up soon on Phoronix.