Ubuntu 17.04 codname is Zesty Zapus. The expected Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty release schedule hints that Ubuntu 17.04 will release in April 2017.
Ubuntu 17.04 ‘Zesty Zapus’
- Zesty (Adjective) & Zest (Noun)
The word Zesty means “great enthusiasm and energy.” It also mean “a quality of excitement and piquancy” and “the outer coloured part of the peel of citrus fruit.” - Zapus (Noun)
The word Zapus means meadow jumping mouse. Zapus is a genus of North American jumping mice. It is the only mammal who is said to have a total of 18 teet with its dental (tooth) formula: 1.0.1.3. 1.0.0.3.
Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu founder, announced the codename of Ubuntu 17.04 today via a blog post “The mouse that jumped”. Mark wrote “We are a tiny band in a market of giants, but our focus on delivering free software freely together with enterprise support, services and solutions appears to be opening doors, and minds, everywhere. So, in honour of the valiantly tiny leaping long-tailed over the obstacles of life, our next release which will be Ubuntu 17.04, is hereby code named the ‘Zesty Zapus’.”
The mouse that jumped
The naming of Ubuntu releases is, of course, purely metaphorical. We are a diverse community of communities – we are an assembly of people interested in widely different things (desktops, devices, clouds and servers) from widely different backgrounds (hello, world) and with widely different skills (from docs to design to development, and those are just the d’s).
As we come to the end of the alphabet, I want to thank everyone who makes this fun. Your passion and focus and intellect, and occasionally your sharp differences, all make it a privilege to be part of this body incorporate.
Right now, Ubuntu is moving even faster to the centre of the cloud and edge operations. From AWS to the zaniest new devices, Ubuntu helps people get things done faster, cleaner, and more efficiently, thanks to you. From the launch of our kubernetes charms which make it very easy to operate k8s everywhere, to the fun people seem to be having with snaps at snapcraft.io for shipping bits from cloud to top of rack to distant devices, we love the pace of change and we change the face of love.
We are a tiny band in a market of giants, but our focus on delivering free software freely together with enterprise support, services and solutions appears to be opening doors, and minds, everywhere. So, in honour of the valiantly tiny leaping long-tailed over the obstacles of life, our next release which will be Ubuntu 17.04, is hereby code named the ‘Zesty Zapus’.