Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1077221/

Thomas Ward has published
an update about the future of the Ubuntu MATE project, which did not have a
26.04 release with the other Ubuntu flavors in
April:

There is a new team working on Ubuntu MATE who have stepped up to
help take over flavor management. They haven’t formally introduced
themselves yet, but I can safely say that other developers HAVE
stepped up for the future of the MATE flavor, despite its prior team
lead having stepped down.

[…] Ultimately, this means that they are working to cover the
missed items and gaps, and may quite possibly have a 26.10 release in
October of 2026, which I believe they most likely are targeting.

This also means that bugs in the MATE environment and in packages
they normally would have shipped had they have a 26.04 release are
still going to get attention and fixes. So, effectively, nothing has
changed. The only difference is that there was no 26.04 installer
image released.

For those looking to install a MATE desktop on a “clean” install of
Ubuntu 26.04, Ward suggests installing Ubuntu Server and then
installing the ubuntu-mate-desktop package.