The default desktop environment in Ubuntu 18.04 is going to be gnome-shell instead of Unity 8.
Does this mean development of Unity is stopped? or just that we can expect it to be beta a bit longer?
source on insights.ubuntu.com post by Mark Shuttleworth.
phoronix also posted about it here
and here about the job cuts
Best Answer
Ars Technica has quotes from a Canonical employee (emphasis mine):
Since they're now falling back to upstream stuff, there's no reason to expect Unity to remain in development as a beta or any other form.
Also note that development != maintenance.