Today, I followed the instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SaucyUpgrades (Ubuntu Desktops 13.04 to 13.10). When I got to step #6, the release notes popped up, and the first two lines said:
Welcome to the Ubuntu 'Saucy Salamander' development release
This is still a BETA release. Do not install it on production machines.
Is my system trying to get outdated files, or is is safe to ignore those notes?
The problem here is that the message has not been updated already. The files are the official 13.10 release but since the message still shows the previous text (when it was Beta) it shows like that to any users that tries to update.
The same thing happened with 12.10 to 13.04 and 12.04 to 12.10. If you do wait about a day (up to a week) the message should change to "Welcome to the Ubuntu 'Saucy Salamander'".
Give it time while the developers work on this "high priority" bug ;). It confused me too until I updated.
13.10 is not a beta release anymore. 13.10 is a stable release. If you were on the Beta release ISOs, or are installing the Beta release ISOs, the system should still update to the latest versions in the repos, as your updates should still be applied because the repositories used are the same as the full released versions now.
This is an issue of where the community docs were just out of date.
The documentation has been updated to reflect that it is no longer a beta release.
Even if it is labelled a beta release you will be getting the same files as the stable release.
For more info:
I installed an alpha or beta, am I up to date with the final release if I keep upgrading?
Always hashcheck downloaded isos from the official releases at releases.ubuntu.com. The check will not only detect transmission errors but detect old or altered versions.
If the problem persists, the cause may be far in the past. You cannot expect official updates to fix everything in an altered iso.
