Is CAE still under active development?

The title says most of it.
I have had my eye on CAE for a while but it doesn't seem very active or like development on it is very rapid. Because of this I have always been hesitant to check it out.
I am downloading the current version but it is a little offputting to see that it's on 12.04 with warnings not to update.
I was thinking about just installing Ubuntu and then installing the packages I wanted but it looks like CAE has some packages I might be interested in but probably wouldn't take the time to install so I'm going to give CAE Linux a shot but if anything traffic, support, community, and development all appear to be dwindling when it seems like right now this distro should be blowing up.

Are there plans for a 14.04 or even better a 16.04 in the near future?

The reality that it's not needed too much.
1) Salome and Code-Aster. It is Salome-MECA now. You may get it from here code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?article303
and install at any linux distribution. It is basically portable software, no dependence hell and etc
2) CalculiX, GMSH, converters calculixforwin.blogspot.com/2015/05/calculix-launcher.html
(portable stable version, you can compile it easily with make file provided)
3) OpenFoam, code-saturn - not sure but also not a big deal. Openfoam is in Ubuntu software center
4) Elmer-FEM Solver is in Ubuntu Software Center, GUI can be complied or installed from software ceter for Ubuntu 13 and older.
5) Other tools (even new ones as Agros2D) - can be installed from PPA
The main problem that old samples for code-aster (in the local wiki) don't work with never versions because they changed syntax little bit.
For now Caelinux2013 works fine, it is not too old. It is linux, so it's not urgent for viruses and things like that, to install updates (except web browser and flash). Some people don't like ubuntu unity interface (I personally disagree with them), XFCE is not very perfect for beginners. There are bunch of questions in this case. But now it works fine.

Yeah I can see that.
I have looked into a few things. In particular I use Cura and it looks like installing that might take a little extra work. I figured if there are a handful of things like that then it may add a considerable amount of time installing everything separately on the distro of my choice vs installing the distro that already has it all.
I decided to take a little longer and weigh my options. I'm not in a huge hurry so I'm almost thinking about waiting for 16.04 to get a little more stable then start building on that.
We will see.
Has anyone thought about merging with Ubuntu so there was a CAE flavor? Even though like you say it's not too hard to install everything on your own it is appealing having a current and actively maintained flavor/distro that does most of what you want out of the box.