Official upgrade for XPS 13 9370 to Ubuntu 18.04?

NathG,

Unfortunately, I have no information when the latest version will be available. As soon as I hear something I will post it.

Dell is rolling Out 18.04 now... For when an upgrade from 16.04? Thanks

I switched the 16.04 Software Updater settings from LTS versions to Any versions and got the 18.04.1 LTS upgrade.

Well, we need to know if dell will provide drivers if we upgrade as things may stop working or start working worst ( there are threads talking about intermitent bluetooth, etc )

Thanks

Despite some error messages during the 18.04.1 LTS upgrade two days ago, it seems to work so far on my 9370. Just now I got a Thunderbolt NVM for 9370 update. I'm quite new on deb (use leap15 in a dual boot setup with 18.04 on 9370), so tip on how to search for Dell installed additions are welcome. Here is one current output:

apt list --all-versions | grep -i dell | grep -v model

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

dell-e-star/now 0.05 all [installert,lokalt]
dell-eula/now 1.06 all [rest-oppsett]
dell-recovery/bionic,bionic,now 1.58 all [installert]
dell-recovery-bootloader/bionic,bionic 1.58 all [rest-oppsett]
dell-recovery-bootloader/now 1.48ubuntu2 all [rest-oppsett]
dell-recovery-casper/bionic,bionic,now 1.58 all [installert]
dell-service-meta/now 4.1 all [installert,lokalt]
dell-super-key/now 0.04 all [installert,lokalt]

Any news on this? Now that Canonical has released 18.04.1 which is the version to be updated to from 16.04 LTS

Curious to hear this as well.  I have a month old laptop which I would love to update.  What are the steps?

Where do you find that option?

Edit: never mind, found: "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version"

I have the same question. 
Is it a good idea to run
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
or will I get any problems with my Dell xps 13?

I just upgraded my XPS13 9370 from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS using 

sudo do-release-upgrade

Everything went fairly smoothly besides the fact that it **bleep**ed up the network manager and I was not able to connect to the wifi using the gui (It didn't even bring up the wifi interface). So I went old school and used the terminal to connect. The easiest would be to set up or tether an unencrypted wifi (or use a wired internet connection)

sudo ip link set wlp2s0 up
sudo iwconfig wlp2s0 essid ''
sudo dhclient wlps20

Check if you are connected 

ping 8.8.8.8 -c 3

Then fix the network-manager

sudo apt purge network-manager --autoremove
sudo apt install network-manager network-manager-gnome network-manager-openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-vpnc network-manager-vpnc-gnome network-manager-openvpn network-manager-openvpn-gnome network-manager-openconnect network-manager-openconnect-gnome 

I also had long boot up times due to an network interface that was created by docker and not available anymore in Ubuntu 18.04.1. I just removed it out of 

/etc/network/interfaces

Besides that I am really happy with the current install. Especially with the power management. My XPS is now consuming about 2W less in average (compared to Ubuntu 16) what results in several hours more run-time in my use case (docker, python, jupyter notebooks and chromium and fairly low desktop brightness). You could get even more out of your battery if you don't use your laptop?! :D.

I think I just use the standard tlp parameters for power saving but if anyone is curious I uploaded it here. 

1. Your network manager problem may actually be caused by your former TLP setup. 

2. Are you sure you didn't run do-release-upgrade with the -d modifier? Or did you change the settings to "any new version"? The upgrade is still not labeled as LTS, so the users shouldn't be prompted to upgrade yet: https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts

Nice to learn there are no major problems in the upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04.1

What about the display server?  I have a 3200x1800 display, and I am wondering whether it is still possible to have fractional scaling.  There are reports of problems on that front:

  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029436/enable-fractional-scaling-for-ubuntu-18-04

Looks like this is the bug that is keeping 18.04.1 to be released to users with 16.04 LTS

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-menus/+bug/1766890

They're working on it.

The full status list of upgrade issues:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-18.04.1

As you can see, there're a few, and the milestone was set to July the 26th, but these critical issues are keeping us from being upgraded

Ooooops, and a bunch of Dell-specific bugs too! Seven of them critical as of today

https://bugs.launchpad.net/oem-priority?field.searchtext=dell&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=NEW&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status%3Alist=CONFIRMED&field.status%3Alist=TRIAGED&field.status%3Alist=INPROGRESS&field.status%3Alist=FIXCOMMITTED&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=

On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 07:48:32AM +0200, Christoph wrote:
> Any idea when Bionic will make it into the meta-release-lts file so> that do-release-upgrade doesn't have to rely on the development> version?
We are working on resolving bug http://launchpad.net/bugs/1766890 which
results in a bad upgrade experience when people upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04.
There is a new version of the dist-upgrader in -proposed and we will be
testing it the next couple of days and plan on updating meta-release-lts
at the beginning of next week.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2018-August/004556.html