Ubuntu Unity In Need Of More Developers To Survive

Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 27 October 2025 at 12:27 PM EDT. 43 Comments

The Ubuntu Unity community flavor of Ubuntu Linux built around the Unity desktop is in a difficult position and at risk for its survival given the lack of developers involved. A call-out has been made in seeking more community developers to contribute to Ubuntu Unity.

Ubuntu Unity 25.10 wasn't released due to critical bugs and the project's longer-term health is at risk. Maik Adamietz who is one of the two main developers on Ubuntu Unity issued a call for help given their lack of time and manpower expertise.

👁 Ubuntu Unity

Adamietz commented on the Ubuntu Discourse:

"As you all know, we didn’t have a Ubuntu Unity 25.10 stable release this time around because we found critical bugs that prevented us from marking the ISO as ready. But these bugs are also present when you upgrade from 25.04 to 25.10 or try to install the Unity desktop on top of another flavor. I also know that there’s more going on since the past few releases of Ubuntu Unity from 24.10 onward which needed patching, fixing but didn’t happen due lack of time and man power.

In short: It got worse, Unity is broken and needs to be fixed.

However, i nor @fuseteam (whom i’ve been talking to the last couple of days) have any technical/developer skills to do this and we both do not know what it takes to be a maintainer; but we’re actively searching for solutions and what we two could do in the meantime to keep things going. We’re on the same page and dedicated when it comes to Ubuntu Unity."

Thus they are seeking help from the community and other Ubuntu project leads for Ubuntu Unity to continue.

👁 Ubuntu Unity 24.04 LTS desktop

With their Ubuntu Unity 25.10 plans abandoned, they hope to be able to deliver an Ubuntu Unity 26.04 LTS release.