--- title: Ubuntu flavours now need a beta release to ship | daily.dev description: Canonical has announced a mandatory beta release policy for all Ubuntu flavours, removing the ability to grant exceptions. Previously, flavours that missed the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-flavours-now-need-a-beta-release-to-ship-3rzftcosy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ubuntu flavours now need a beta release to ship | daily.dev og:description: Canonical has announced a mandatory beta release policy for all Ubuntu flavours, removing the ability to grant exceptions. Previously, flavours that missed the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-flavours-now-need-a-beta-release-to-ship-3rzftcosy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3rZFtCOsY.png og:image:alt: Ubuntu flavours now need a beta release to ship og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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 flavours now need a beta release to ship **[omg\! ubuntu\!](https://daily.dev/sources/omgub)** · 2 min read · 28 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Canonical has announced a mandatory beta release policy for all Ubuntu flavours, removing the ability to grant exceptions. Previously, flavours that missed the beta milestone could still ship a final release — as happened with Ubuntu Kylin during the 26.04 LTS cycle. Going forward, any flavour that does not submit a beta on schedule will not be considered for an official stable release. The change aims to improve stability by ensuring a wider pool of users tests the same build before final release, and gives flavour developers a clear deadline for bug fixes. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@starfallcodes** · 1 upvotes > bro there are more ubuntu flavours than i have friends T_T **@ajaychoudhary80** · 0 upvotes > Quality starts with a predictable release process. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status](https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-flavors-now-mandated-to-participate-in-beta-releases-for-official-status-sutcnlfvp) · Phoronix · 1 upvotes · 0 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), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#ubuntu](https://daily.dev/tags/ubuntu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-flavours-now-need-a-beta-release-to-ship-3rzftcosy) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Ubuntu flavours now need a beta release to ship","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-flavours-now-need-a-beta-release-to-ship-3rzftcosy","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/ubuntu-flavours-now-need-a-beta-release-to-ship-3rzftcosy"},"datePublished":"2026-06-18T15:14:59.986Z","dateModified":"2026-06-18T16:28:52.941Z","description":"Canonical has announced a mandatory beta release policy for all Ubuntu flavours, removing the ability to grant exceptions. 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