Thomas Ward, a Lubuntu project leader and member of the Ubuntu Technical Council, announced the formation of a new development team for the Ubuntu MATE distribution, which has taken over the maintenance of the project following the departure of its founder. There will not be a formally separate release of Ubuntu MATE 26.04, but MATE desktop packages for Ubuntu 26.04 will continue to be provided and supported correctly. The new development team has started addressing and fixing errors that have accumulated over several years of stagnation in the project and is also working on updating MATE to version 1.28 from the outdated MATE 1.26 release formed in 2021.
Users of previous Ubuntu MATE branches can switch to the Ubuntu 26.04 package base through updates, but a separate installer image of Ubuntu MATE based on Ubuntu 26.04 will not be published.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 created as a full release.
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