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{i} '''Note to editors:'''
You are more than welcome to contribute!<<BR>>
· If you change any formatting, please do so consistently.<<BR>>
· Always provide references to back up EoL dates.<<BR>>
· A flavours' support period is defined by both Ubuntu's generic release announcement and that of the flavour - if they do not match, point it out, use what the flavour last announced.<<BR>>
· When EoL dates / support periods change:<<BR>>
· Always list the currently valid EoL date only.<<BR>>
· Document (notes and references) both initial support period and any change announcements<<BR>>
· Reducing support periods below earlier announcements should not be possible, point it out where it happens<<BR>>
Thank you!
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= End of Life Dates =
'End of life (EoL)' is when a software reaches the end of its designated support period. When this happens varies across Ubuntu, Ubuntu flavours [<<FootNote(Ubuntu flavours: [[https://www.ubuntu.com/download/flavours|Ubuntu.com: "Ubuntu Flavours"]], [[RecognizedFlavors|wiki.ubuntu.com: "Recognized Flavours"]])>>] and different releases, so we are gathering this information here to have a central reference for volunteer support efforts.
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{i} '''Please note!'''
'''See the official [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases|Releases]] page for Ubuntu EoL dates.'''
The page you are looking at now is a volunteer driven community effort. '''None of the information provided here is to be understood as official or legally binding announcements by Canonical, the Ubuntu project or any Ubuntu flavours.'''
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||<#33CC00> ||<:99%>'''Currently supported'''<<BR>> ||
||<#FF4D4D> ||'''End of life'''<<BR>>(ESM [<<FootNote(Ubuntu [[https://www.ubuntu.com/esm|Extended Security Maintenance (ESM)]])>>] may be available)||
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== Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver ==
Latest point release: '''18.04.3'''
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes#Official_flavours|Official flavours]]
||'''Flavour''' ||'''EoL Date''' ||'''References'''||<:99%>'''Notes'''||
||Ubuntu ||<#33CC00> 2023-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes|#]]||ESM [<<FootNote(Ubuntu 18.04 ESM: [[https://ubuntu.com/esm|Ubuntu.com: "Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) and subsequent releases until further announcement will have ESM updates provided for up to five years."]])>>] planned||
||Kubuntu ||<#33CC00> 2021-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu#Support_lifespan|#]] [[https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu|#]]|| ||
||Lubuntu ||<#33CC00> 2021-04 ||[[https://lubuntu.me/bionic-released|#]]|| ||
||Ubuntu Budgie||<#33CC00> 2021-04 ||[[https://ubuntubudgie.org/blog/2019/02/15/18-04-2-lts-ubuntu-budgie-released|#]]|| ||
||Ubuntu Kylin ||<#33CC00> 2021-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes#Support_lifespan|#]]||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylin|Release announcement]] (also: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylinChinese|#]] [[http://www.ubuntukylin.com/news/shownews.php?lang=en&id=761|#]] [[http://www.ubuntukylin.com/news/shownews.php?lang=cn&id=759|#]]) does not state a support period||
||Ubuntu MATE ||<#33CC00> 2021-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes#Support_lifespan|#]]||[[https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-bionic-final-release/|Release announcement]] does not state a support period||
||<|2>Ubuntu Studio||<#FF4D4D> 2019-01||[[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2018-April/000231.html|#]] [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BionicBeaver/ReleaseNotes#Support_lifespan|#]]||Official support: 9 months||
||<#33CC00> 2021-04 ||[[http://ubuntustudio.org/2019/04/ubuntu-studio-18-04-extended-support/|#]] [[https://ubuntustudio.org/download|#]]||Extended community support [[http://ubuntustudio.org/2019/04/ubuntu-studio-18-04-extended-support/|via Ubuntu Studio Backports PPA only]]<<BR>>(previously, extended community support had been announced to last [[https://ubuntustudio.org/2019/02/updates-for-february-2019/|until 2020-04]])||
||Xubuntu ||<#33CC00> 2021-04-29||[[https://xubuntu.org/release/18-04/|#]]|| ||
== Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus ==
Latest point release: '''16.04.6'''
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Official_flavours|Official flavours]]
||'''Flavour''' ||'''EoL Date''' ||'''References'''||<:99%>'''Notes'''||
||Ubuntu ||<#33CC00> 2021-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Support_lifespan|#]]||ESM [<<FootNote(Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: [[https://ubuntu.com/esm|Ubuntu.com: "16.04 (Xenial Xerus) will have updates provided for up to three years"]])>>] planned||
||Kubuntu ||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04-25||[[https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu|#]]|| ||
||Lubuntu ||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04-25||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu#Support|#]] [[https://lubuntu.me/xenial-released|#]]|| ||
||Mythbuntu ||<#FF4D4D> "18.04" ||[[http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news/mythbuntu1604released|#]]|| [[http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news/mythbuntu1604released|"[..] supported until shortly after the 18.04 release"]]||
||Ubuntu GNOME ||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME#Support|#]] [[https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-16-04-lts-is-here/|#]]|| ||
||Ubuntu Kylin ||<#33CC00> 2021-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylin#Support|#]] [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylinChinese|#]] [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Support_lifespan|#]]|| ||
||Ubuntu MATE ||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Support_lifespan|#]]||[[https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate-xenial-final-release/|Release announcement]] does not state a support period||
||Ubuntu Studio||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuStudio#Support|#]]|| ||
||Xubuntu ||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04-21||[[https://xubuntu.org/release/16-04/|#]]|| ||
== Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr ==
Latest point release: '''14.04.6'''
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes#Official_flavours|Official flavours]]
||'''Flavour''' ||'''EoL Date''' ||'''References'''||<:99%>'''Notes'''||
||Ubuntu ||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04-25||[[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2019-March/000241.html|#]] [[https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/09/19/extended-security-maintenance-ubuntu-14-04-trusty-tahr|#]] [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes#Support_lifespan|#]]||ESM [<<FootNote(Ubuntu 14.04 ESM: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/ESM/14.04|Ubuntu Security Team: 14.04 ESM]], [[https://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/02/05/ubuntu-14-04-trusty-tahr|Ubuntu Blog: "14.04 Trusty Tahr Extended Security Maintenance"]])>>] available||
||Edubuntu ||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04-25||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/Edubuntu|#]] [[http://www.edubuntu.org/news/14.04.2-release|#]]|| ||
||Kubuntu ||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04-25||[[https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu|#]]||[[14.04 LTS -> 16.04 LTS upgrade unsupported|https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu]]||
||Lubuntu ||<#FF4D4D> 2017-04 ||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu#Support|#]]|| ||
||Mythbuntu ||<#FF4D4D> "16.04" ||[[http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news/mythbuntu1404releasedbetterlatethanneveredition|#]]|| [[http://www.mythbuntu.org/home/news/mythbuntu1404releasedbetterlatethanneveredition|"[..] supported until shortly after the 16.04 release"]]||
||Ubuntu GNOME ||<#FF4D4D> 2017-04-28||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME#Support|#]]|| ||
||Ubuntu Kylin ||<#FF4D4D> 2019-04-25||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuKylin#Support|#]] [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/KylinChinese#A.2BYoBnL2UvYwE-|#]]|| ||
||Ubuntu Studio||<#FF4D4D> 2017-04 ||[[https://ubuntustudio.org/2014/04/ubuntu-studio-14-04-lts-final-release-is-out|#]]|| ||
||Xubuntu ||<#FF4D4D> 2017-04-17||[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/Xubuntu|#]] [[https://xubuntu.org/release/14-04/|#]]|| ||
== Other versions ==
'''Flavour releases which do not coincide with Ubuntu LTS releases are supported for 9 months.'''<<BR>>
See the official [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases|Releases]] page for more information.
= Related =
== Utilities ==
{o} Use `ubuntu-support-status` to determine a given systems' support status (but consider [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager?field.searchtext=ubuntu-support-status|bug reports]])<<BR>>
== Web Links ==
{o} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Release|Official Ubuntu Release Overview]]<<BR>>
{o} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecognizedFlavors|Terms for official flavours]]
== Citations ==