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Bharath (lord-loh) wrote : Re: [Bug 1605474] Re: "No new release found" upgrading from 14.04LTS to 16.04.1

"After a week" is in the comment to the answer on Ask Ununtu. A moderator
got this info from IRC. And there is nothing to stop them from making it a
fortnight.

On Jul 25, 2016 2:50 AM, "Pirx Danford" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Cheers, so I was going by
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule and its really
> difficult to find information about why LTS server systems won't
> upgrade.
>
> There are a lot of people suggestiong to use the -d flag, but quite
> frankly I don't feel like taking that risk. So I hope the documentation
> about the waiting time and its reasons will improve.
>
> The way I understand it now if @Bharath is correct with availability after
> a week we could expect do-dist-upgrade to offer the update on July the 28th?
> It would be very cool if this very important step in the upgrade process
> would be reflected in the schedule, after all its about upgrading LTS
> servers, which are normally pretty vital infrastructure wise.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1605474
>
> Title:
> "No new release found" upgrading from 14.04LTS to 16.04.1
>
> Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> So, today is July 21st and this page
> (http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server). gives me an option to
> download 16.04.1 LTS. However, attempting to upgrade gets me this
> message -
>
> $ sudo do-release-upgrade
> Checking for a new Ubuntu release
> No new release found
>
> I asked this question here - http://askubuntu.com/questions/801488
> /how-do-i-upgrade-from-14-04-lts-server-to-16-04-1
>
> The best answer I got is that the update log is not updated -
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts
>
> The last entry here is -
>
> ```
> Dist: trusty
> Name: Trusty Tahr
> Version: 14.04.4 LTS
> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:04:00 UTC
> Supported: 1
> Description: This is the 14.04.4 LTS release
> Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release
> ReleaseNotes:
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/ReleaseAnnouncement
> ReleaseNotesHtml:
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/ReleaseAnnouncement.html
> UpgradeTool:
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/trusty.tar.gz
> UpgradeToolSignature:
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty-updates/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/trusty.tar.gz.gpg
> ```
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