Colab Updated to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
We’re happy to announce that Colab has upgraded its default runtime to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. You can read more about the distribution changes here.
With this upgrade, we bring the Colab runtime up to the latest Ubuntu long-term support release (22.04 LTS) and in alignment with the cadence of major Ubuntu LTS releases that occur every other year.
Colab’s fallback runtime version
Using the fallback runtime version temporarily allows access to the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS runtime, and will be available until early August. This is available from the Command Palette via the “Use fallback runtime version” command when connected to a runtime. Of note, this setting does not persist across sessions — the command will need to be invoked on each new session.
Please report any problems you experience with the new release here.
