Canonical ya ba da sanarwar haɓaka lokacin sabuntawa don sakin LTS na Ubuntu 14.04 da 16.04 daga shekaru 8 zuwa 10. A baya can, an yanke shawara akan irin wannan tsawaita lokacin tallafi don Ubuntu 18.04 da 20.04. Don haka, za a sake sabuntawa don Ubuntu 14.04 har zuwa Afrilu 2024, don Ubuntu 16.04 har zuwa Afrilu 2026, don Ubuntu 18.04 har zuwa Afrilu 2028, da na Ubuntu 20.04 har zuwa Afrilu 2030.
Rabin lokacin tallafi na shekaru 10 za a tallafawa a ƙarƙashin shirin ESM (Extended Security Maintenance), wanda ke rufe abubuwan da ke da lahani ga kwaya da mahimman fakitin tsarin. Samun dama ga sabuntawar ESM yana iyakance ga masu amfani da biyan kuɗin tallafin biya kawai. Don masu amfani na yau da kullun, ana ba da damar samun sabuntawa na shekaru biyar kawai daga ranar da aka saki.
Don sauran rabawa, an ba da lokacin kulawa na shekaru 10 akan SUSE Linux da Red Hat Enterprise Linux rabawa (ba tare da ƙarin ƙarin sabis na shekaru uku don RHEL ba). Lokacin goyan bayan Debian GNU/Linux, la'akari da Extended LTS goyon bayan shirin, shine shekaru 5 (da zaɓin wasu shekaru biyu a ƙarƙashin ƙaddamarwar LTS). Ana tallafawa Fedora Linux na watanni 13, kuma ana tallafawa openSUSE na watanni 18.
source: budenet.ru