Thomas Ward, Lubuntu project leader and member of the Ubuntu technical council, announced the formation of a new team of developers for the Ubuntu MATE distribution, which has taken over the project after its founder's departure. A formal separate release of Ubuntu MATE 26.04 will not be made, but packages with the MATE desktop for Ubuntu 26.04 will continue to be provided and supported appropriately. The new team of developers has begun to sort through and fix the issues that have accumulated over several years of project stagnation, and they are also working on updating MATE to version 1.28 from the outdated MATE 1.26 release from 2021.
Users of previous versions of Ubuntu MATE can switch to the Ubuntu 26.04 package base through updates, but a separate installation image of Ubuntu MATE based on Ubuntu 26.04 will not be published. On new systems, any edition of Ubuntu 26.04 can be installed, after which the MATE desktop can be deployed with the command 'sudo apt install ubuntu-mate-desktop'. The fall releases of Ubuntu MATE 26.10 are planned to be made as a full release.
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