As scheduled , Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn is released and now available to download via official ubuntu website . Nothing notable is in this release, except better support for containers ( lxc and docker etc ) , booting with systemd and a new kernel ( Linux kernel 3.16 ) . so lets see whats new in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic .

What’s new

• Linux kernel 3.16
• Unity 7 with support for High-DPI displays
• Firefox 33
• LibreOffice 4.3
• Xorg 1.16
• Thunderbird 31.2.0
  See the full list

Download :

http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.10/ (Ubuntu Desktop and Server)

Upgrading server :

sudo do-release-upgrade

Upgrading Desktop :

You can upgrade via update-manager

In Ubuntu 14.10 there is nothing new except some under the hood changes like

kernel 3.16 features

• Nvidia graphics performance improvements
• Allow booting ARM 64 kernels as EFI stubs
• faster resume from suspend ,
• support for Intel Broadwell CPU’s ( Intel Cherryview graphics support)

see full list of kernel 3.16 features

Useful Links
–http://www.ubuntu.com/
–https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes