Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the next Long Term Support hits alpha 2 release. Though regular Ubuntu doesn’t take part in the alphas , the following flavours are participating in this second round of alphas:

• Edubuntu
• Kubuntu
• Ubuntu GNOME
• Ubuntu Kylin
• Xubuntu
• Ubuntu Cloud

Download Links: releases.ubuntu.com

• Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 Alpha2
• Kubuntu 14.04 Alpha2
• Edubuntu 14.04 Alpha2
• Ubuntu Cloud 14.04 Alpha2
• Xubuntu 14.04 Alpha2
• Ubuntu Kylin Alph2

If you’re on Ubuntu 13.10, you can also upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 Alpha to help testing this development release via this post. Note that don’t do this on production machines.

The Ubuntu 14.04 will hit its first beta release at next month, see the release schedule:

• Alpha 1 – December 19th (for flavours) – released
• Alpha 2 – January 23rd (for flavours) – released
• Beta 1 – February 27th (for flavours)
• Final Beta – March 27th
• Release Candidate – April 10th
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Final – April 17th