Ubuntu 12.10 would be released later today. And this is the time when we get to hear the name of the next edition. And as expected, Mark Shuttleworth has announced the official name of their next Ubuntu update.

Ubuntu 13.04 has been labeled Raring Ringtail.

You can see that they are continuing with a tradition of using unusual adjectives and animal species for naming newer builds of Ubuntu.

Shuttleworth spoke about this decision:

The dash to Copenhagen combined with a dash across the Atlantic has me righteously ramfeezled, but the roisterous reception we got at the OpenStack summit (congrats, stackers, on a respectable razzmatazz of rugible cloud enthusiasm) made it worthwhile. A quick shout out to the team behind the Juju gooooey, that puts a whole new face on cloud agility – rousing stuff. Nevertheless, it’s way past time to root our next rhythmic release in some appropriate adjective.