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> the project lead, Rudra B. Rudra, has had less time to dedicate to the work recently. As a result, the team could not ship a stable 25.10 release this October.

That may not be the biggest deal, because Ubuntu 25.10 itself is not going to be stable, thanks to switching from GNU coreutils to the uutils Rust rewrite, with Ubuntu 25.10 being a "see what breaks and fix it" canary before the long-term support 26.04 release in 6 months.