Canonical has made it possible to subscribe for free to the commercial service Ubuntu Pro (formerly Ubuntu Advantage), providing access to extended updates for LTS branches of Ubuntu. The service allows users to receive vulnerability fixes for up to 10 years (the standard support duration for LTS branches is 5 years) and offers access to live patches that enable updates to the Linux kernel without rebooting.
The free subscription to Ubuntu Pro is available for individuals and small businesses with up to 5 physical hosts in their infrastructure (the program also covers all virtual machines hosted on those hosts). To obtain access tokens for the Ubuntu Pro service, a user account on Ubuntu One is required, which anyone can create. The extended updates subscription can be managed using the command 'pro attach' or the graphical application 'Software & Updates' (live patch tab).
Additionally, it has been announced that extended updates are being prepared for new categories of applications for workstations and data centers. For example, the release of extended updates will now encompass packages such as Ansible, Apache Tomcat, Apache Zookeeper, Docker, Drupal, Nagios, Node.js, phpMyAdmin, Puppet, PowerDNS, Python 2, Redis, Rust, and WordPress.
Source: opennet.ru
