One of our readers was asking us last week if we have any news on when Ubuntu Touch will switch to a newer version of Ubuntu? The official answer came a few days ago from Canonical’s Łukasz Zemczak, who reveals the fact that the Ubuntu mobile OS will soon be rebased on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus).
It appears that this is not the first time the Ubuntu Touch developers have been asked by Ubuntu Phone and Ubuntu Tablet users what’s the state of operating system’s baseline, which right now is still using the packages from the now deprecated Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) release.
“There is no real touch development work happening on yakkety – more also because our touch images are still using upstart,” says Łukasz Zemczak. “There are no plans for us switching to yakkety so we any yakkety-based images are most likely to be broken. We recommend using our vivid (stable, rc, rc-proposed) channels for any touch-related development for now.”
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