Meet Ubuntu 24.04!

From the important features for the server version:

Support for updates for 12 years after the OS release.

The Linux kernel has been updated to version 6.8.

The most important server packages have been updated:

• Nginx 1.24
• Apache httpd 2.4.58
• Samba 4.19
• Exim 4.97
• Clamav 1.0.0
• Chrony 4.5
• Containerd 1.7.12
• Django 4.2.11
• Docker 24.0.7
• Dovecot 2.3.21
• GlusterFS 11.1
• HAProxy 2.8.5
• Kea DHCP 2.4.1
• libvirt 10.0.0
• NetSNMP 5.9.4
• OpenLDAP 2.6.7
• open-vm-tools 12.3.5
• PostgreSQL 16.2
• Runc 1.1.12
• QEMU 8.2.1
• SpamAssassin 4.0.0
• Squid 6.6
• SSSD 2.9.4
• Pacemaker 2.1.6
• OpenStack 2024.1
• Ceph 19.2.0
• Openvswitch 3.3.0
• Open Virtual Network 24.03.

Software for performance analysis, process tracing, and system status monitoring has been added.

In particular, the following packages have been added: procps, sysstat, iproute2, numactl, bpfcc-tools, bpftrace, perf-tools-unstable, trace-cmd, nicstat, ethtool, tiptop, and sysprof, which are combined into the meta-package performance-tools.