The Xubuntu team is proud to announce the Alpha2 release of Xubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal!

Updates for this release include

• Xfce 4.10
• Updated applications, including GIMP 2.8 and gThumb 3.0.1

In addition, starting from the Quantal cycle, Xubuntu will not support Wubi installations.

Visit the download page to give it a try. Be sure to report your testing results to help the Xubuntu developers – see the ISO testing tracker. Bugs can be reported in Launchpad. If you are looking for support), please see the #ubuntu+1 IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Before testing this release, make sure to review the release notes.

Known issues

• All applications using Gtk3 currently have some mismatched colors in menus and buttons because of a bug in the Unico engine (Bug:1016713).