Ubuntu Unity 25.10 is yet to be released

Pre-Release Discussion
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Ubuntu Unity 25.10 is yet to be released, whenever all other 25.10 Questing flavours have been.
It seems that no information is published publicly to explain the delay and inform the user community.

Is that expected for an official Ubuntu Unity flavour?
cc: @mclemenceau

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If you scan Questing Quokka (25.10) Release Status Tracking you’ll find it mentioned specifically

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Thanks @guiverc
I’m aware of that post. It doesn’t change the situation, and does not answer my question.

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Read it this way: Ubuntu Unity has decided not to release 25.10. Full stop.

There will not be a 25.10 release of Ubuntu Unity.

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Thank you @eeickmeyer
It seems to confirm that Ubuntu Unity is not properly developped, maintained. As such, should it be an official Ubuntu flavour, as its user base is relying on the fact that it is an official Ubuntu flavour? What are the criteria?

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That would be a false assumption. I got an email from one of the team members just this morning asking for guidance on how to proceed.

Skipping a release is not the end. Skipping two is.

RecognizedFlavors - Ubuntu Wiki is where the old criteria was, but a new spec is being worked on as we speak.

And now with my discourse moderator hat on: The Ubuntu Code of Conduct requires that we assume good intentions. I understand your intentions are to understand, but the tone is rather offputting.

Ubuntu Unity is a community project and as such relies upon community support, which includes you. If you want it to continue, best to step up and help.

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It is not just an assumption.

For several versions now, the Ubuntu Unity dev team has been releasing with bugs important enough to hinder the basic use of the OS. In my experience, they do not address bug reports, nor reply when contacted about specific issues.

I’m glad to read that the Ubuntu Team members have reached out to you for guidance, post-release. I wonder if they have a pre-release, as they missed the release date.

I acknowledge the fact that according to you, skipping a release is not the end. Skipping two is. However I still feel that whatever issues the Ubuntu Unity team is experiencing that prevent the release should be communicated to the Ubuntu Unity user community. https://ubuntuunity.org/ does not give such information. As the official site for this official Ubuntu flavour, it doesn’t give relevant info, but for download links mainly. They do not use discourse.ubuntu.com.

Hence my question, are they up to specs for an official Ubuntu flavour?

It saddens me when people around me who have been using Unity since Canonical introduced it way back then move to Linux Mint because they can’t be bothered by a buggy Ubuntu Unity.

I hope that my remarks as a long-standing contributor and even longer Ubuntu user, will reach the Ubuntu Technical Board. It may be a shortcut, but when an official Ubuntu flavour doesn’t deliver rather consistently, Canonical doesn’t deliver.

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No, that’s the incorrect assumption. Canonical has zero to do with Ubuntu Unity except for publish it on the team’s behalf.

As for everything else, we have some items brewing in the backend that I cannot publicly disclose, so you’re going to have to be like everyone else and be patient.

Again, Ubuntu Unity is a community project and as such relies upon community support , which includes you . If you want it to continue, best to step up and help.

If you want to see it continue, join the team and help, otherwise stop this line of thinking. You’re not a customer, nor have I ever seen you contribute to any part of Ubuntu.

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This topic was closed for several reasons:

  1. It’s not constructive. Bashing the Ubuntu Unity developers is a violation of the Code of Conduct. It’s also not an effective way to engage those developers.

    If a development team seems to need help, the correct response is to offer help instead of criticism.

  2. It promotes tiresome myths.

    • It promotes the myth that Canonical = Ubuntu.
    • It promotes the myth that Users = Customers, and have an entitlement.
    • It promotes the myth that Canonical can command the resources of volunteer participants.

    Maybe those myths were not intended, maybe they were. But they poisoned any potential discussion. So we’re going to stop it here.

  3. @aofrl10n1’s opinions have been heard. Repetition or piling-on is not constructive discussion (see #1).

The mission of Ubuntu Discourse is to improve Ubuntu through community action.

If folks want to have a constructive chat about how to Ubuntu Unity can be improved, this Discourse is a great place for it.

Folks who just want to complain or opine, consider taking that next step toward action and participation.

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