The UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical pulled away from it, announced a transition to a new model for generating releases. Instead of releases in the form of "OTA-number branch_name", new versions of the Ubuntu Touch firmware are released using the "year.month.update" scheme, where the year and month correspond to the time of a significant release based on a new branch of Ubuntu. The update number corresponds to a minor release that includes only fixes and minor improvements. Significant releases are planned to be published once every six months, and intermediate releases - every two months.
The new scheme will be applied after updating the project to the Ubuntu 24.04 package base. The first version of Ubuntu Touch based on Ubuntu 24.04 is planned to be released in June and assigned the number 24.6.0. When corrective updates are generated, they will be assigned the number 24.6.1, 24.6.2, etc. In 6 months, around December 2024, Ubuntu Touch 24.12.0 will be released, which will offer new features and changes from Ubuntu 24.10. Each major version will be discontinued one month after the new major version is formed.
Since the transition from the current branch, based on Ubuntu 20.04, to the Ubuntu 24.04 package base requires a lot of work and additional stabilization, the Ubuntu Touch Focal branch is planned to be supported for some time in parallel with the new Ubuntu Touch 24.6 branch. In particular, it is planned to generate updates for Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 Focal, OTA-6 Focal, etc., until the new branch is completely stabilized. At the same time, OTA updates for Ubuntu Touch Focal will only include bug fixes and vulnerabilities, and new functionality will be developed in the Ubuntu Touch 24.6 branch.
Source: opennet.ru