After building the basefile for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS aka Bionic, my first tests look fine. Setting the release name in class/UBUNTU.var to ubuntudist=bionic and copying the basefile from https://fai-project.org/download/basefiles/BIONIC64.tar.xz works. Oh, I didn't test yet if the network is running after the installation. I will do this later.
-- regards Thomas