Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Come With GRUB 2.02 Beta 2

While many users are still checking out the brand new Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth and the Canonical developer team are already working on the next version, Ubuntu 14.04: Trusty Tahr. Furthermore, buzz has it that Ubuntu distributions might implement the most recent version of GRUB, still in beta stage in Trusty Tahr. It must be noted here that Canonical doesn't usually pick packages that are still in the Beta stages but it just might make an exception for the GRUB 2.02.
                                          According to developers they would like to upgrade to GRUB 2.02 that represents a year and a half of upstream development and contains many new features, for trusty. GRUB 2.02 Beta 2 features some very interesting features, like support for the experimental 64-bit ext2, better DM-RAID partition handling, TrueCrypt ISO loader, multiboot2 boot-services EFI specification, and more. 

“Obviously I want to be very careful with substantial upgrades to the default boot loader. So, I've put this in trusty-proposed, and filed bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1269992 to ensure that it doesn't reach trusty proper until it's had a reasonable amount of manual testing,” said Colin Watson, the technical lead for the Ubuntu Foundations Team.

Ubuntu 14.04 will be the next long-term support (LTS) version of the operating system. Many new features that were introduced in Ubuntu 13.10, such as scopes, will be fine-tuned in Trusty Tahr. Other features that didn't make it into the full version of Ubuntu 13.10, but made it into the new mobile version, Ubuntu Touch, will be included in all versions of Ubuntu 14.04. Prominent among these are image-based updates and the Mir graphics stack.

Main high points of Ubuntu 14.04, according to Shuttleworth, will be "performance, refinement, and maintainability."