Canonical announced about increasing The deadline for the formation of updates for Ubuntu LTS issues 14.04 and 16.04 c 8 to 10 years. Previously, the decision on similar extension of the support period was It is customary for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04. Thus, updates will be issued for Ubuntu 14.04 until April 2024, for Ubuntu 04.04 – until April 2026, for Ubuntu 18.04 until April 2028, and for Ubuntu 20.04 until April 2030.
Half of the 10-year-old support will be carried out under the ESM program (Extended Security Maintenance), which covers updates with the elimination of vulnerabilities for the kernel and the most important system packages. Access to ESM updates is limited only for users of a paid subscription to technical support services. For ordinary users, access to updates is provided only for five years from the date of release.
As for other distributions, the 10-year accompaniment period is provided in distributions SUSE Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (not counting the extended three-year additional service for RHEL). Debian GNU / Linux support period, taking into account the advanced LTS support programs, is 5 years (plus selectively two years as part of the “Extended LTS” initiative). Fedora Linux is supported by 13 months , and OpenSUSE – 18 months.