Do Not Try to Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS at This Time
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) was released just a few days ago. So you might want to jump to it from 22.04 LTS or 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)—the excitement is big! But let me be direct and a bit intense here: JUST DON’T! I’ll explain why below.
For your information, traditionally, Canonical provides an official upgrade path for Ubuntu’s LTS versions soon after their first point release. For the 24.04 LTS, this update is planned for August 15th (24.04.1). But that’s not the problem in this case.
In previous Ubuntu LTSes, long before the release of the first point version, upgrades always ran smoothly; however, until now. Two newly discovered bugs in the Noble Numbat release, one related to the Thunderbird snap and another in the libglib transitional package, result in a completely broken and non-functional system if you try the upgrade. So, please, don’t do it!
Right after Ubuntu 24.04 was released, we tried different upgrade approaches to provide you with the best tested and working guide on the topic. However, all attempts ended ingloriously, so that’s why we still haven’t published something like “How to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.”
