It's not yet released and ars didn't say it was released, rather: Ars has its ha...

regularfry · on Oct 18, 2012

Maybe we are reading a different article:

    Today, Canonical has released version 12.10 of its Ubuntu Linux
    distribution, code-named "Quantal Quetzal" after a ridiculously 
    awesome-looking bird.

aes256 · on Oct 18, 2012

Yet it hasn't actually been released. The download links on the website all point to 12.04, and 12.10 is not available through the update manager yet either.

Looks like Ars jumped the gun.

EwanToo · on Oct 18, 2012

It's in the update manager, I ran the upgrade a couple of hours ago on a VM on my work PC, worked fine.

aes256 · on Oct 18, 2012

I can only get it to show up in update manager as a developer release, with a warning that it is still in beta.

This is using both the main and my local archive...