Thomas Ward, project leader of Lubuntu and member of the technical council of Ubuntu, announced the formation of a new team of developers for the Ubuntu MATE distribution, which has taken over the maintenance of the project after the departure of its founder. No formal separate release of Ubuntu MATE 26.04 will be made, but packages with the MATE desktop for Ubuntu 26.04 will continue to be provided and supported properly. The new development team has begun to tackle and fix the issues that accumulated over several years of project stagnation and is also working on updating MATE to branch 1.28 from the outdated version MATE 1.26, which was formed in 2021.
Users of previous versions of Ubuntu MATE can transition to the package base of Ubuntu 26.04 by installing updates, but a separate installation image of Ubuntu MATE based on Ubuntu 26.04 will not be published.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 autumn release of Ubuntu MATE 26.10 is planned to be formed as a full release.
Bron: opennet.ru
