Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” announced by Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon, community manager of Ubuntu has just announced the 8.04 release with LTS support.

Jono’s Growing Ubuntu speech @ LinuxTag 2007 

By now everyone schould be getting the connection between the release names and the date of release, so obviously.. it will be released in April 2008 😉

from jonobacon.org

I am delighted to have the pleasure of announcing the Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), the next version of Ubuntu that will succeed Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10, due for release in October 2007). Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. We look forward to releasing the Hardy Heron in April 2008.