Canonical publishes new releases of Dédalo, enabling the community, businesses and developers to plan their roadmaps with the certainty of access to newer open source upstream capabilities.

Releases

The major releases cadence is around 4 years for production state:


v0 1998 -> 2000

v1 2000 -> 2004

v2 2004 -> 2008

v3 2009 -> 2014

v4 2014 -> 2018

v5 2018 -> 2023

v6 2023 -> 2027


The development process takes around 2 years, the Alpha state take around 6 months and the Beta state is around 1 year, and the release candidate state take around 6 months.
Between major versions we develop the minor versions and the patches.

Our nomenclature for versions is: v5.7.1


v5 -> major version

7 -> minor version

1 -> patch version