The based for Ubuntu Touch is now Vivid Vervet

Aug 14, 2015 14:30 GMT  ·  By

The Ubuntu Touch platform is currently stable and based on Ubuntu 15.04, but there are a few development branches out there. One of those branches is using Ubuntu 15.10 as a base, but it turns out that Canonical has no plans to move to that platform any time soon.

One of the things that are different with Ubuntu Touch is the fact that it's not synchronized with the main Ubuntu distro. For now, this is not one of their priorities. The development channels that will get new features and improvements, which will eventually land for regular users, are based on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet).

Ubuntu developers were talking a while back about their plans to move everything on an Ubuntu Snappy Core base, including the desktop flavor, but that's not happening any time soon. What we do know is that they do not intend to move to Ubuntu 15.10 as the base for Ubuntu Touch. If we also take into consideration that they are preparing to launch Ubuntu 15.10 in October, it's clear that they have other plans for the base of the mobile edition.

Ubuntu Touch sticks to the Vivid base

It turns out that there are quite a few users out there who are using the development version of Ubuntu Touch based on Wily Werewolf and that're not really OK, since it's a branch that's not being improved.

"The devel channels are based off wily which is and will *not* be the focus for touch. Even more: in the near future we have no plans of even switching our stable phones to that baseline. This means that all the feature development actually happens on the vivid-based channels, e.g. stable, rc and rc-proposed. If you want to run a latest-development channel (at your own risk), at least use the rc-proposed channels instead. There are no reasons for using that channel - we are doing only bare minimum QA on those channels, so the risk of your devices being broken is really high," said  Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak.

From the looks of it, some interesting changes are coming to Ubuntu Touch, but nothing is happening in the near future.