{"id":19576,"date":"2022-11-29T13:42:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/new-versions-of-ubuntu-touch-mir-and-unity-arrive-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:42:34","slug":"new-versions-of-ubuntu-touch-mir-and-unity-arrive-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/29\/new-versions-of-ubuntu-touch-mir-and-unity-arrive-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"New versions of Ubuntu Touch, Mir, and Unity arrive \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n

Various parts of Ubuntu’s cancelled desktop\/fondleslab convergence project are all still ticking away \u2013 some officially and some thanks to user communities.<\/p>\n

UBports is edging closer to moving to a different LTS \u2013 except on the PinePhone, which is going its own way. It’s nearly six months since Ubuntu Touch OTA-23 appeared<\/a>, and the UBports community have announced<\/a> the next version, OTA-24. As the Reg<\/em> noted last year<\/a>, though, this release is still based on Ubuntu 16.04. We suspect that is because this was the last LTS release before Ubuntu cancelled the fondleslab version<\/a> the following year, before the next LTS version, 18.04<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"x<\/p>\n

Graphical desktop system X Window just turned 38<\/h2>\n

READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

As such, UBports is going to skip 18.04. The days of “Bionic Beaver” are numbered anyway: its official<\/a> end of life is next April. Instead, soon, Ubuntu Touch will switch its base OS to Ubuntu 20.04<\/a>, whose codename<\/a> is “Focal Fossa<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

That won’t be the next version, though. The release notes for OTA-24 say:<\/p>\n

\n

This is the last OTA for Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) with major features. The next OTA-25 will be mainly security fixes and long-term support updates for xenial.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Which means that we can expect at least one more version based on the geriatric but official codebase first. When Ubuntu Touch finally moves to a newer version, it will be able to incorporate some newer elements from upstream.<\/p>\n

Canonical itself hasn’t abandoned quite all<\/em> of the components of its planned mobile platform. At least two of its components are still in active development by the company.<\/p>\n

The Snap package format originated in Ubuntu Phone, and Snap is still going strong, as we described earlier this month<\/a>. It’s not the only such part, though.<\/p>\n

\n