Canonical released today, as expected, the final Beta of the upcoming operating system Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus, which will be released on April 13, in all opt‑in flavors, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, etc.
The final Beta is the last step in the development cycle of Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus, and it shows us somewhat what to expect from the upcoming operating system. 
The final Beta Freeze stage was implemented on Monday, March 20 and will last until the final release, which means that what you see in the final beta if you download it is essentially what will be released on April 13. No new features will be added, but there will certainly be improvements to the existing ones.
As you may already know, Ubuntu 17.04 "wears" Linux kernel 4.10, version 4.10.5.
This means that most of the open-source graphics drivers included in the Linux 4.10 kernel have been improved. We should also mention that Ubuntu 17.04 comes with the newer Mesa 17.0 3D Graphics Library, and that Mesa 17.0.1 is already available in the final Beta.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu 17.04 Final Beta still uses the old version of X.Org Server 1.18.4 as a display server. We hope that Ubuntu developers will complete the testing and manage to upgrade to the new X.Org Server 1.19 by the final release.
Another interesting change that we will see from this release is the use of a swap file instead of a swap partition during the installation of Ubuntu 17.04. Of course, this will not apply to users upgrading from Ubuntu 16.10. On the networking side, it appears that the default DNS resolver is now done via systemd.
If you use printers, Ubuntu 17.04 final Beta supports many more drivers: Apple AirPrint and IPP Everywhere printers all out-of-the-box. Among the updated applications are: LibreOffice 5.3, QEMU 2.8, libvirt 2.5, DPDK 16.11.1, and OpenVPN 2.4, MPV, GIMP, VirtualBox, Thunderbird, Firefox, Synaptic, etc. For the first time in many years, the GNOME stack is now at its latest version, in this case GNOME 3.24.
If you want to try this version, you can download the live ISOs from the following links:
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