The good news is that the final release of the Ubuntu 16.10 operating system, which should hit the street later this year on October 13, will be powered by a kernel from the upcoming Linux 4.8 series, whose development cycle is about to begin with a first Release Candidate (RC) build seeded to public testers this coming weekend. Until then, Ubuntu 16.10 will soon get various packages from the GNOME 3.20 Stack, including the long-anticipated Nautilus 3.20 file manager and GTK+ 3.20 framework for modern desktop applications. The next milestone in the Yakkety Yak development cycle is the Beta 1 release, which should be out later this month on the 25th.