Hours after the release of Ubuntu 23.10, Canonical has withdrawn the ISOs and repurposed them after user-submitted translations of Ubuntu installers were proven to contain hate speech. A crowdsourced user translation from a third-party tool into an Ubuntu package turned out to contain some (unspecified) hate speech. As a result, the Ubuntu 23.10 image has been removed and Canonical is working on rescaling the ISO and correcting the translation.
Ubuntu posted the equivalent of an Ubuntu 23.10 recall on Twitter not long ago:
UbuntuDiscourse went on to add:
"Shortly after release, we discovered hate speech from a malicious contributor in a specific set of translations of the Ubuntu desktop installer UI and took immediate action. These translations will be removed and updated ISO material will be available for download once we have replaced the offending translations.
It's worth noting that these translations do not belong to the UbuntuArchive, and we believe this incident only contains translations provided through our third-party translation tools for some applications.
Affected images that have been removed include Ubuntu Desktop 23.10, Ubuntu Budgie 23.10, and Ubuntu Desktop daily images. "