Status: Upgrading from Ubuntu 20.10 to 21.04 (No Official Upgrade Yet)

 From the Ubuntu release announcement on their mailing list:

Users of Ubuntu 20.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 21.04 in due course once an upgrade bug in the "shim" bootloader is fixed. For further information about upgrading, see: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/upgrade and https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/19221/#heading--release-upgrades

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