Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) Has Entered Feature Freeze, Beta Lands February 23

Canonical's Iain Lane informed the Ubuntu community of developers about the fact that the upcoming Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) operating system is now officially in Feature Freeze stage, effective immediately as of February 16, 2017, at 21:00 UTC. According to the Zesty Zapus release schedule, February 16 marks both the Feature Freeze and Debian Import Freeze stages of development for Ubuntu 17.04, which means that application developer are no longer allowed to push new features to the upcoming operating systems, but only bugfix releases of their packages that address critical bugs. "Version strings don't matter for Feature Freeze. If you upload a new upstream release and it has no new features, then you don't need an exception. If you add a deb/patch that adds a new feature, or [you] enable one via build flags then you do. We care about the content of the archive, not exactly how things got there," sa...