Ubuntu Flavor sync meeting notes: March 9, 2026

Flavors & Remixes
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Representatives from the Ubuntu Flavors along with various Canonical and community leads met on March 9th 2026 to discuss the upcoming release of Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon among other desktop and flavor developments:

Introductions

@ilvipero kicked off both sessions with a few reminders of the basic rules of flavor sync meetings.

  • What?
    A flavor sync meeting is a recurring meeting between parties involved in the development and release of Ubuntu and Ubuntu flavors. It happens every 2 months, therefore we have 3 flavor sync meetings for each Ubuntu release. We usually have 2 sessions for each meeting, to accommodate time zones.
  • Who?
    Ubuntu flavors, Ubuntu developers, upcoming flavors, derivatives, and anyone interested is welcome to join the flavor sync meetings. Quick note, the meetings are focused on the challenges and issues of the upcoming release of Ubuntu. In order to give everyone time to speak, we need to be aware of time constraints. If a topic appears to be very complex and time consuming, we can move it to Discourse discussion or schedule a separate meeting.
  • How?
    Ubuntu flavor sync meetings are not streamed nor recorded. This is done on purpose to encourage honest, sometimes difficult questions and conversations. Highlights of the flavor sync meetings are posted on the Ubuntu Discourse, to encourage ongoing conversation around the topics discussed and relevant to the development of Ubuntu releases.

More information about the Ubuntu flavor sync meetings can be found on this announcement post .

Round table discussion

  • @fossfreedom - Ubuntu Budgie

    • All going well with Budgie. The new Budgie release is Wayland only.
    • Thanks to @dloose for SDDM issues with the installer.
    • Learning experience from Ubuntu Budgie: Recommendation to other flavors, do not stick to both and jump to Wayland, leave x11 behind.
    • The experience was that it took more time than initially thought, but with a good upstream, the team managed to complete the work for 26.04

  • @arraybolt3 - Lubuntu

    • Everything is fine, No Wayland yet, and will probably have to make that a separate PPA for it. Other than that Lubuntu is coming up on a decent release.
    • @jbicha Debian still has a lot of older window managers, so Xorg is likely to be available in Debian for a long while. Therefore, the Xorg server is likely to remain in Ubuntu even if Canonical engineers stop working on its maintenance.

  • @tomekdev - Ubuntu Unity

    • First meeting joined, he recently joined Ubuntu Unity.
    • Staying with x11 for this release due to lack of bandwidth.
    • Starting to learn the codebase of Unity, and start Wayland migration estimations.
    • Possibility to move to Lomiri, but Lomiri is in a less usable status.
    • Issues with ISO builds, due to Calamares issues.
    • @ilvipero Mentions that Rhino Linux is also switching to Lomiri for some of their devices.
    • @jbicha Plans to create an unofficial ISO of Ubuntu 26.04 that uses Lomiri. Please reach out if you’re interested in making Lomiri an official Ubuntu flavor.

  • @itzswirlz - Cinnamon

    • Yaru theming - probably going to do some manual CSS to keep color variant support for Cinnamon components.
    • Wallpapers and installer customization 80% done.
    • Staying with LightDM - see message in Ubuntu Flavours room.
    • Sending wallpapers tomorrow.

  • @eeickmeyer - Ubuntu Studio

  • @jbicha gtk2 might be removed from Ubuntu 26.10. Debian is making good progress towards removing gtk2: pidgin and the Debian installer are basically the last gtk2 apps in Testing. Other distros like Arch and Alpine have or are removing gtk2 from their primary repositories. RHEL 10 was released last year without gtk2.

ISO tracker, livefs, and ISO testing

PS5 infrastructure, Wordpress, and migrations

  • @ilvipero PS5 and all wordpress instances being shut down end of March - Last call to move.
  • @aaronprisk Other community instances being affected by PS5 decommissioning.

Flavors documentation

  • @marek-suchanek Flavours documentation?
    • Ubuntu Desktop has a new official documentation set
    • We’re also building new Ubuntu release notes: preview
    • We can help flavours set up a similar project in Read the Docs, if they’re willing to provide the content. One documentation set for all flavours? Separate?

New wiki project

Get involved!

Ubuntu Flavor Sync Meetings take place every 2 months on the second Monday of January, March, May, July, September, November. There are two sessions, 3PM UTC and 10PM UTC, to best accommodate our global community.
All are welcome to join and participate in the discussion!

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Slight correction: It’s the Edubuntu domain being spoofed, not Ubuntu Studio.

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Thank you, @eeickmeyer , done.