{"id":45341,"date":"2024-01-25T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T10:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=45341"},"modified":"2024-01-25T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T10:51:34","slug":"ubuntu-23-04-end-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/ubuntu-23-04-end-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 23.04 is Reaching End of Life Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ubuntu-circle-1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-39048\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ubuntu-circle-1-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ubuntu-circle-1-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ubuntu-circle-1-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ubuntu-circle-1-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ubuntu-circle-1-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ubuntu-circle-1.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Ubuntu 23.04, code-name &#8216;Lunar Lobster&#8217;, will be soon no longer supported!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 23.04 was released on April 20, 2023 with 9-month support circle. And, today January 25, 2024 is the last day it&#8217;s officially supported according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-announce\/2023-December\/000297.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning that Ubuntu developer team will no longer publish any security and package updates for users of Ubuntu 23.04. Also, third-party repositories and Ubuntu PPAs will mostly stop updating packages for 23.04.<\/p>\n<p>There are security risks of using end-of-life system, so it&#8217;s better to <b>either upgrade to Ubuntu 23.10<\/b>, which is supported until July 2024, then upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 (with 5 years support) a few months later.<\/p>\n<p>Or, <b>re-install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS<\/b> that is supported until 2027, plus 5 years of expanded security maintenance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ubuntu2304-desktop.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43851\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ubuntu2304-desktop-600x338.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ubuntu2304-desktop-600x338.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ubuntu2304-desktop-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ubuntu2304-desktop-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ubuntu2304-desktop-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ubuntu2304-desktop-1320x743.webp 1320w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ubuntu2304-desktop.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To download the latest Ubuntu images, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ubuntu.com\/download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To upgrade Ubuntu 23.04 to Ubuntu 23.10, either see the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/ManticUpgrades\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official guide<\/a> or this <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/upgrade-to-ubuntu-2310\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">step by step<\/a> guide. It&#8217;s IMPORTANT to make backup, since upgrade might fail due to various reasons!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu 23.04, code-name &#8216;Lunar Lobster&#8217;, will be soon no longer supported! Ubuntu 23.04 was released on April 20, 2023 with 9-month support circle. And, today January 25, 2024 is the last day it&#8217;s officially supported according to the announcement. Meaning that Ubuntu developer team will no longer publish any security and package updates for users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2079],"class_list":["post-45341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ubuntu-23-04"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}