{"id":275495,"date":"2026-06-18T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/ubuntu-flavors-now-mandated-to-participate-in-beta-releases-for-official-status\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:10:11","slug":"ubuntu-flavors-now-mandated-to-participate-in-beta-releases-for-official-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/ubuntu-flavors-now-mandated-to-participate-in-beta-releases-for-official-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate\">Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-18 08:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canonical and  the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu flavors like Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu MATE, etc, must now submit successful beta releases per the scheduled timeline if they are looking to have an official release for a given Ubuntu Linux cycle.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=ubuntu_mate_2404\" alt=\"Ubuntu MATE flavor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Up to now rare exceptions were granted if an Ubuntu flavor wasn&#8217;t ready in time for the beta milestone, but moving forward this is being treated as a hard requirement with no exceptions to be granted. Ubuntu Kylin was cited as the latest example of a flavor obtaining an exception on delivering a beta release while still shipping a final ISO release for the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. The hope is this leads to better testing and quality of Ubuntu flavor releases.<\/p>\n<p>More  details on this change for those interested can be found via the Ubuntu release mailing list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=ubuntu_mate_2404","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-275495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275499,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275495\/revisions\/275499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}