I have been using Ubuntu 18.04 for a few years. Used Unity DE initially but then moved to gnome and finally to Mate DE 1.20.1 I guess that may technically not be the same thing as using Ubuntu Mate 18.04 because I added Mate to my already running Ubuntu 18.04.
Now, I have no other reason to upgrade the base OS to Ubuntu 20.04 (and would like to avoid doing that as much as possible) so am looking at options to see if I can continue with higher/supported versions of Mate DE with my existing Ubuntu 18.04.
I am interpreting this announcement to mean that this is not possible, and if I want to continue to use fully supported Mate DE (like 1.24?) I must upgrade the base Ubuntu to 20.04.
Is my understanding correct?