Ubuntu Budgie announced that it will be moving to Budgie 10.6 in the upcoming LTS 22.04 release:

I will be very interested in looking at this implementation when it is released, because I'm interested in seeing whether the Solus Budgie and Ubuntu Budgie builds converge, and if so, how closely. I run Ubuntu Budgie 21.20 in a Gnome Box at present (for purposes of comparison with Solus Budgie), and will use that version and the 22.04 release version for comparison between the two Ubuntu implementations, and then compare Solus's 10.6 implementation with Ubuntu Budgie's 10.6 implementation.

@EbonJaeger Do the Mutter issues also affect Solus's implementation?

    EbonJaeger Can you clarify what Mutter issues?

    Other than what fossfreedom mentioned in his post on the Ubuntu Budgie forum ("... waiting on Canonical to complete the migration steps of ... Mutter before it will be allowed into the release pocket (i.e. budgie-desktop has a dependency of mutter ..."), I can't. I'm hoping that the issue fossfreedom mentioned is unique to Ubuntu and does not affect Solus.

        tomscharbach Oh. I don't think he means any issue per se, just that they have a pretty rigid process and timeline for when updates (like a new major release like Mutter 10) have to be done by.

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          Lucien_Lachance i suppose theres no way to sneak this in early?

          I don't know how far out 10.7 is likely to be (10.6 is scheduled to come to Solus 3/18) but, as much as I would like to have this feature, upgrading to Budgie unstable -- assuming that's even possible for users outside the project -- strikes me as a good way to make my life miserable.

            Lucien_Lachance With this I'll be able to uninstall Plank. Add fractional scaling (next Friday I think) and Budgie will be complete in my opinion.

              Budgie 10.6 is now in the Unstable repository. For the best experience, I would recommend restarting your computer after updating, or at minimum, logging out and back in. Have fun!

              Lucien_Lachance I don't really want to commit to it one way or the other at the present time. We'll see what things look like a bit in the future. 🙂

                Budgie 10.6 here, 2 little things:

                Some icons in the new Budgie Control Center are "out of theme" (papirus here). (?)

                Desktop notification doesn't look good, it's like a notification inside another one, and maybe the shadow is less shadow than before:

                  sangheeta Some of the control center icons use custom icons. This appears to be from upstream GNOME Control Center.

                  I just pushed an update to the branding, changing the default theme to Materia, to match the recommendation and vision of upstream Budgie. The padding issue has been reported, but it looks like a theme issue and Plata appears to no longer be maintained.

                  Apologies for not doing that before, and for any inconveniences with switching themes. I don't use Plata myself and forgot about it.

                  Thank you for the testing and feedback!

                      EbonJaeger I just pushed an update to the branding

                      Do you happen to know if the virtual desktops are still limited to just 8? That was one of the issues that sent me to Plasma after using Budgie for a long time.

                          Yeah, they're split into separate packages for... some reason...

                          is there a way to install 10.6 without going full unstable? like sudo eopkg url x 7 ? or would there be unmet dependencies this way?

                          EbonJaeger The padding issue has been reported, but it looks like a theme issue and Plata appears to no longer be maintained.

                          That's disapointing. I got used to Plata-Noir and end up liking it very much.