{"id":37628,"date":"2022-02-25T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=37628"},"modified":"2022-02-25T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:11:25","slug":"ubuntu-20-04-4-new-hardware-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/ubuntu-20-04-4-new-hardware-support\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Point Release Ubuntu 20.04.4 is out with New \/ Updated Hardware Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35967\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ubuntu-logo1200-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ubuntu-logo1200-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ubuntu-logo1200-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ubuntu-logo1200-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ubuntu-logo1200-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ubuntu-logo1200.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ubuntu team <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-announce\/2022-February\/000277.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the release of Ubuntu 20.04.4 last night, with hardware enablement stacks, many security updates and bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Like previous LTS series, 20.04.4 includes hardware enablement stacks for use on newer hardware. This support is offered on all architectures.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/linux-meta-hwe-5.15\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linux Kernel 5.15<\/a> is still in proposed repository at the moment of writing, while Kernel 5.13 has been distributed for a period of time. So I&#8217;m kinda confused about the &#8216;hardware enablement stacks&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they are the following updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Update hardware support for Dell XPS 13 9300<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Add support for Alder Lake P graphics (ADL-P)<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Add support for AMD&#8217;s Yellow Carp<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Update hardware support for Lenovo ThinkStation P340 Tiny, Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q\/M80q\/M90q<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Update hardware support for HP Z8 G4 Workstation, HP Z2 Mini G5 Workstation, SFF G5 Workstation, TWR G5 Workstation<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Add support for AMD&#8217;s Beige Goby<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Support Foxconn SDX55 T99W175 5G sub6 PCIE<\/b> and <b>Quectel SDX24 EM160R-GL 4G LTE CAT16 PCIE<\/b> wireless Modem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the release, it also enabled native Wayland support for thunderbird package, and restored nautilus copying filenames functionality. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/FocalFossa\/ReleaseNotes\/ChangeSummary\/20.04.4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">change summary for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Get Ubuntu 20.04.4:<\/h3>\n<p>For Ubuntu 20.04.x, simply run regular system update via either &#8216;<b>Software Updater<\/b>&#8216; or the command below will bring you to the new release.<\/p>\n<p><b>sudo apt update &#038;&#038; sudo apt upgrade<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To verify, either run <code>cat \/etc\/issue<\/code> or see the &#8216;About&#8217; page in settings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/about-focal4.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/about-focal4-600x423.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"423\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-37629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/about-focal4-600x423.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/about-focal4-300x212.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/about-focal4-768x542.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/about-focal4.webp 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or download Ubuntu 20.04.4 from the official website:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download Ubuntu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ubuntu team announced the release of Ubuntu 20.04.4 last night, with hardware enablement stacks, many security updates and bug-fixes. &#8216;Like previous LTS series, 20.04.4 includes hardware enablement stacks for use on newer hardware. This support is offered on all architectures.&#8217; Linux Kernel 5.15 is still in proposed repository at the moment of writing, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1896],"class_list":["post-37628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-ubuntu-20-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}