It would have appreciated the software updater telling me that that I won't be upgraded because I'm on the previous LTS instead of insisting that there aren't a

It would have appreciated the software updater telling me that that I won't be upgraded because I'm on the previous LTS instead of insisting that there aren't any upgrades available - this while I'm reading the release notes from Ubuntu. Bonus points for allowing me to upgrade anyway without resorting to the terminal. From https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-upgrading-ubuntu-desktop#2 https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-upgrading-ubu...: If no upgrade appears As mentioned in the Ubuntu wiki, upgrades from 17.10 will not be enabled until a few days after the release of 18.04 and upgrades from 16.04 LTS will not be enabled until a few days after the release of 18.04.1, expected in late July 2018. You can force the upgrade, however, with the following steps: close Update Manager if it's still running open a terminal in the same way you opened Update Manager type update-manager -d and press enter