--- title: "Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status" url: https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-flavors-now-mandated-to-participate-in-beta-releases-for-official-status-sutcnlfvp source_url: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate type: article source: "Phoronix" published: 2026-06-18T12:50:49.112Z updated: 2026-06-18T12:51:06.754Z tags: ["open-source", "linux", "ubuntu"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have introduced a new policy requiring all Ubuntu flavors (such as Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu MATE) to submit successful beta releases on schedule in order to maintain official status for a given Ubuntu cycle. Previously, exceptions were occasionally granted to flavors that missed the beta milestone while still shipping a final ISO. Ubuntu Kylin was cited as the most recent example of such an exception during the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle. The change aims to improve testing quality and release reliability across all official Ubuntu flavors, with no further exceptions to be granted. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Ubuntu flavours now need a beta release to ship](https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-flavours-now-need-a-beta-release-to-ship-3rzftcosy) · omg\! ubuntu\! · 28 upvotes · 2 comments - [Ubuntu’s Official Flavour List Is Shrinking, And That’s Not a Bad Thing](https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-s-official-flavour-list-is-shrinking-and-that-s-not-a-bad-thing-9ffwjbcxk) · It's Foss · 40 upvotes · 4 comments - [Two Ubuntu Flavours Won’t Be LTS Releases Next Year](https://daily.dev/posts/two-ubuntu-flavours-won-t-be-lts-releases-next-year-w7huwbfd5) · omg\! ubuntu\! · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#ubuntu](https://daily.dev/tags/ubuntu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-flavors-now-mandated-to-participate-in-beta-releases-for-official-status-sutcnlfvp)