Is 22.04 no longer supported as an LTS version?

[Bret Busby]

On 16/10/25 20:51, Bret Busby wrote:
> 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.
> 

However, I assume that the patches are included in Ubuntu Pro, but, not
in the mainstream release?

Apart from the security notification of the problem and the patching, I
have not seen an available update for my ffmeg ; the version shown as 
installed, and, showing as the latest available version (from synaptic), is
7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
whereas the patch in the security notification, has the suffix +ems ;
" ffmpeg                          7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm9"

My version of ffmpeg has not been updated for a while (synaptic, in the 
Properties, does not show either the date that the package was released, 
or, the date that the package was installed or last updated, by 
installation/update), and, the security notification is timestamped 
about three hours ago.


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Bret Busby
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