Ubuntu 17.04, which has got codename 'Zesty Zapus', is currently penciled in to ship on 13th April, 2017. The release date for Ubuntu 17.04 has now been firmed up as are the other development milestones leading up to the mid-April, currently we know that Unity 8 is going to be the interesting feature which will be shipped in 17.04 and swap partitions will likely to be replaced by swap files as mentioned by Canonical's Dimitri John Ledkov, and rest what's new coming in this release we don't know.
Zesty Zapus is a short-term support release for 9 months including selected application updates, critical security updates and bugs fixes.

Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty

The schedule of the release of Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus with given dates are as follows:
  • December 29th - Alpha 1 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
  • January 26th - Alpha 2 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
  • February 23rd - Beta 1 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
  • March 23rd - Final Beta
  • April 9th - Release Candidate
  • April 13th - Final Stable Release

Download daily builds of Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus


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