Show latest Raspberry Pi releases
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I'm a little confused as to why https://ubuntu-mate.org/download/ only shows 16.04.2 (Xenial) under Raspberry Pi releases:
Choosing other architectures produces newer releases. And when I login to a fresh Xenial install on Raspberry Pi 3, I'm told a newer version is available (18.04.1 LTS):
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.38-v7+ armv7l)
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com
* Management: https://landscape.canonical.com
* Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage
0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.
New release '18.04.1 LTS' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
Last login: Wed Oct 3 16:43:44 2018
lar@dmz:~$
But I see http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/18.04/release/ doesn't list armhf releases yet. Is this a case of the release being out, but images haven't been built? (I only ask because it's not possible to dist-upgrade a Raspberry Pi from 16.04 - the boot partition is too small.)
Unlike the desktop builds, images for the Raspberry Pi are not built on Canonical's architecture, so they won't appear on http://cdimage.ubuntu.com. However, since these builds use the official Ubuntu armhf repositories, the Pi may behave like desktop Ubuntu in that it sees newer versions available.
The Ubuntu MATE team (specifically @flexiondotorg) generates and tests Raspberry Pi builds separately to the main project, but there has been a slight delay for 18.04. There hasn't been any newer 16.04 images built since 16.04.2 either.
OK, great info, thank you!