Is 22.04 no longer supported as an LTS version?

[Bret Busby]

On 16/10/25 21:07, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 16/10/25 21:05, Bret Busby wrote:
>> 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 ;
> 
> Wrong - the suffix is "+esm9".
> 
>> " 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.
>>
>>
> 
> 

My reason for the text of the last sentence above, is that I cannot see 
how old is the version that I have, that is installed, especially, 
relative to the security patch.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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