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Two Ubuntu Flavours Won’t Be LTS Releases Next Year
Quoting: Two Ubuntu Flavours Won't Be LTS Releases Next Year - OMG! Ubuntu —
No Ubuntu Unity LTS? Expected in light of challenges facing the distro (there was no Ubuntu Unity 25.10 release) because the incumbent project lead is, reportedly, now busy with higher education. Upside: new contributors want to take over1 and keep it going.
No Ubuntu MATE LTS? It has produced an LTS release every 2 years since it became an official flavour in 2015 but, like Ubuntu Unity, is low on contributors stepping up to keep things going. Ergo, resources rather than will is likely the reason it opted-out.
Anyway, that’s the state of things right now. Things could change (appeals, etc), and both Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Unity are still able to request to release non-LTS versions.
UbuntuHandbook:
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Ubuntu MATE & Unity Will NOT Be Official Ubuntu 26.04 Flavors | UbuntuHandbook
As you know, the Ubuntu flavors are the community maintained distributions with different desktop environments or specific intended use case. So far, Ubuntu has 10 official flavors, they are listed in this Ubuntu web-page.
Ubuntu always requires the official flavors to go through a qualification process for every releases, especially for LTS. For next Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, the following flavors have been approved with three year LTS qualification.