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I'm waiting for over a week now for getting a pop-up for upgrading my system from 19.10 to 20.04.

Is it safe to force upgrading with the -d parameter in do-release-upgrade? I'm getting the following output for do-release-upgrade -cd

Er wordt gecontroleerd of er een nieuwe Ubuntu-uitgave is
Nieuwe versie '20.04' beschikbaar.
Voer 'do-release-upgrade' uit om naar de nieuwe versie op te waarderen.

So it proposes to upgrade to 20.04. Will I then be on a development branch, or just normal?

Or is it better to just wait some more time, until I get a pop-up. Or will this pop-up not be shown until the first point release, as this post suggests?

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    Back up everything that you cannot afford to lose before starting the release upgrade. If your current system works well you can wait until the beginning of July and then do the release upgrade. Do it before 19.10 passes end of life. (Users of 18.04.x LTS will reduce the risk, if they wait for the first point release near the end of July.) – sudodus May 01 '20 at 08:58
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    FYI: the development branch is now Ubuntu 20.10 (gorilla), Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) is no longer development as it's been released, but the upgrade path hasn't been opened yet (thus the '-d' is currently required if you don't jump to the development branch. – guiverc May 01 '20 at 09:14
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    Does this answer your question? Is the "Final Release" a "Development Release"? – N0rbert May 01 '20 at 10:13
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    I'm still confused. @guiverc so using the -d will not switch my system to development brach of 20.10 (gorilla) as this upgrade path hasn't been opened yet, but instead just upgrade my system to 20.04 wich is now the stable branch? – wouter205 May 01 '20 at 18:21

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Finally, I did the upgrade using do-release-upgrade -d and now I'm on 20.04 without problems. Output for lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal
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