Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin released
Canonical has released desktop and server versions of its Ubuntu 12.04 distribution dubbed Precise Pangolin, which comes with three years of support.
Canonical's Ubuntu 12.04 is the first long term support (LTS) release in two years and is the first to feature the Unity desktop. Canonical has also introduced a number of cloud specific services in Ubuntu 12.04 server including metal-as-a-service and its recently announced AWSOME APIs.
Canonical has posted a lengthy changelog for Ubuntu 12.04, with the change most visible to end-users being the heads-up display in Unity. Ubuntu 1 12.04 is based on the Linux 3.2.14 kernel and ships with Libreoffice 3.5.2, with Gnome, which is still present despite Unity, also being updated to 3.4.1.