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I've understood that when I run the Software Updater GUI program, or when I execute do-release-upgrade on the command line, it should offer to upgrade to the latest LTS release if (1) I've got the release update behaviour set to lts, and (2) if the first point release of a newer LTS release is available.

I have a couple of machines running the Xubuntu LTS release 18.04. The contents of file etc/update-manager/release-upgrades on all these machines is

[DEFAULT]
Prompt=lts

That satisfies condition (1). Also, it seems that Xubuntu 20.04.1 is already released, satisfying condition (2). However, neither do-release-upgrade nor the Software Updater offers to upgrade to that release. Why?

Edited to add: It seems this question is a duplicate of "Why isn't an upgrade to 20.04 from 18.04 available yet?".

Teemu Leisti
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  1. The Ubuntu Release Team has delayed point releases in the past to ensure a safe transition for the largest number of folks.

  2. In this case, 20.04.1's release took place on a Thursday. The Release Team has historically been (understandably) reluctant to enable upgrades for millions of machines right before they leave for the weekend.

  3. Some systems cannot be upgraded quite yet due to blocking bugs

user535733
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you are right with your two conditions (upgrade behaviour set to LTS and first point release is released) and you are right that both conditions are met by now.

However, there is a third condition that needs to be fulfilled. That is "Upgrades from 18.04 to 20.04.1 are enabled". This is an extra step that needs to be activated by the team.

This has not been done so far. Actual status is "20.04.1 Released! - Upgrades from 18.04 to 20.04.1 still disabled" You can see the status here. The reason is that they are still working on some "upgrade blockers". I would expect upgrades to be activated in the next few days.

Hope that helps!

Regards

800XL-Imp
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Indeed: if your are trying to upgrade from 18.04 (LTS version) to 20.04 (LTS version) you'll have to wait for the first point release. This would be 20.04.1. As it currently stands, this release is out. So why does the updater not update? Because the metadata file is not yet updated. Wait for the folks at Ubuntu to update the metadata, so it lists Focal Fossa. (Based on this comment)

Jurrie
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Open Software & Updates -> Updates -> Notify me of a new Ubuntu Version -> For any new version. (change) Close. Then sudo apt update.

AWeaver
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