Canonical has made available a free subscription to the commercial Ubuntu Pro (formerly Ubuntu Advantage) service, which provides access to extended updates for the LTS branches of Ubuntu. The service provides the opportunity to receive updates with vulnerabilities fixes for 10 years (the standard maintenance period for LTS branches is 5 years) and provides access to live patches that allow you to apply updates to the Linux kernel on the fly without rebooting.
A free Ubuntu Pro subscription 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 these hosts). To get access tokens to the Ubuntu Profree service, you need an account in Ubuntu One, which anyone can get. To subscribe to extended updates, use the "pro attach" command or the "Software & Updates" graphical application (Livepatch tab).
In addition, it was announced that extended updates are being prepared for new categories of applications for workstations and data centers. For example, the Extended Update release will now cover 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