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Who? The headline writer? I'm sure they'd probably love it if they could get a quote from Mark Shuttleworth saying "Lo, they have violated the sacred covenant of semantic versioning. Heresy! We shall drive them out of the release cycle where vultures may peck at their commit logs" but, you know, so far they didn't.
Yeah, the headline writer. The actual information (and indeed the entire article) doesn't say anything about breaking a covenant, its just that Canonical is changing how they treat updates.