Probably more Ubuntu enthusiasts have noticed that Unity, the official Ubuntu flavor that brings back the once-beloved Unity desktop for the first time since gaining official status, has failed to deliver a 25.10 release. Well, there’s a reason for that, and now its maintainers are publicly asking for help.
In a post published yesterday, one of the Ubuntu Unity team members explained that project lead Rudra Saraswat, who’s been at the center of development since the remix’s early days, no longer has time to maintain the project due to university studies.
Combined with the temporary absence of other contributors, this has left the team without the manpower needed to test, fix, and ship new ISOs. “Unity is broken and needs to be fixed,” the statement bluntly admits, describing critical bugs that prevent both fresh installs and upgrades from Ubuntu 25.04 to 25.10.
The team clarified that automated ISO builds continue, but no hands-on testing or patching has been possible for months. As a result, even users who try to install the Unity desktop on top of other Ubuntu flavors encounter serious issues.
Now that no developers are actively maintaining the codebase, the future of Ubuntu Unity is in question. The remaining maintainers are appealing to the broader open-source community to step in — whether by fixing bugs, testing ISOs, or mentoring new contributors — to keep the project alive at least until the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.
So we can only hope that some devs will step in to help Unity continue — not just as nostalgia, but as a distinct desktop experience that still highly resonates with long-time Ubuntu fans.
For more information, see the message on Ubuntu’s discourse.
