Is 22.04 no longer supported as an LTS version?
Bret Busby
bret at busby.net
Thu Oct 16 12:51:18 UTC 2025
On 16/10/25 20:45, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> Hi,
> Am Donnerstag, dem 16.10.2025 um 20:17 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>> In the message below, the security patches for 22.04 appear to be
>> available to only paid subscribers ("Ubuntu Pro").
>>
> Ubuntu Pro has nothing to do with payments, it is a free service unless
> you want to use it commercially for a datacenter or some such ...
>
> Up to 22.04 packages from universe only got security patches from the
> community ... that means about 4-5 packages got fixed from the whole
> lot of 25000 packages over the lifetime of an LTS simply because there
> were not many community contributors ...
>
> With 22.04 Canonical decided to hire a bunch of new security
> maintainers to actually offer the same level of CVE fixes in universe
> as it does for main, this is why apt now shows you the available fixes
> ...
>
> ciao
> oli
>
>
Hello.
Thank you for the clarification.
..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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