Canonical has announced an increase in the period for the formation of updates for the LTS releases of Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 from 8 to 10 years. Previously, a similar extension of support was made for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04. As such, updates will be released for Ubuntu 14.04 until April 2024, for Ubuntu 16.04 until April 2026, for Ubuntu 18.04 until April 2028, and for Ubuntu 20.04 until April 2030.
Half of the 10-year maintenance period will be supported through the ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) program, which covers updates with vulnerabilities fixed for the kernel and most important system packages. Access to ESM updates is limited only to users of a paid technical support subscription. For regular users, updates are only available for five years from the date of release.
For other distributions, a 10-year maintenance period is provided on SUSE Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions (not including the extended 5-year add-on service for RHEL). Debian GNU/Linux is supported for 13 years with the Extended LTS Support Program (plus optionally two more years under the Extended LTS initiative). Fedora Linux is supported for 18 months and openSUSE for XNUMX months.
Source: opennet.ru