Comment 1 for bug 202174

Please provide a full upstream changelog and a diffstat for the new version, per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess.

Also, it doesn't appear from www.abiword.com that 2.6 has been released yet? We can't make a very informed decision about granting a freeze exception for software that's not even available yet.

In general this appears to be a quite extensive set of changes to accept this late in the release cycle without more coordination; there are UI changes, multiple new features, and possibly library changes requiring significant integration work. I think the only way I would ok this is if the desktop team says it's wanted for release.