{"id":50027,"date":"2025-11-15T13:33:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=50027"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:33:50","slug":"canonical-extended-ubuntu-lts-support-to-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/canonical-extended-ubuntu-lts-support-to-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonical Extended Ubuntu LTS Support to 15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Ubuntu LTS releases, starting from Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the official support has been extended to 15 years.<\/b><\/p>\n

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced the expansion<\/a> of the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro few days ago. Along with the Standard and Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) support, the total coverage is expanded to 15 years.<\/p>\n

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Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop<\/p><\/div>\n

Ubuntu LTS Support History<\/h3>\n

Ubuntu LTS, the releases published every even-numbered years in April (e.g., Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04), initially has 5 years of standard support.<\/p>\n

Start in January 2023, Canonical announced the general availability of Ubuntu Pro<\/a>, expanded Ubuntu LTS support circle with additional 5 years for subscribed users through Expanded Security Maintenance.<\/p>\n

Then, the Legacy add-on<\/a> for Ubuntu Pro was announced in last year expanded the security and support with 2 more years.<\/p>\n

Due to the positive reception and growing interest in longer life-cycle coverage (according to the announcement), the legacy add-on was extended to 5 years, thus the total support Ubuntu LTS releases has updated to 15 years.<\/p>\n

Current Ubuntu Releases Support Circle<\/h3>\n

Ubuntu website has updated the life-circle page<\/a> for all releases that are still in coverage. And, here’s a table for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Ubuntu Releases<\/td>\nRelease Date<\/td>\nEnd of Standard Support<\/td>\nEnd of Ubuntu Pro Support<\/td>\nEnd of Legacy Addon Coverage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25.10 (Questing Quokka)<\/td>\nOct 2025<\/td>\nJul 2026<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25.04 (Plucky Puffin)<\/td>\nApr 2025<\/td>\nJan 2026<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)<\/b><\/td>\nApr 2024<\/td>\nApr 2029<\/td>\nApr 2034<\/td>\nApr 2039<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)<\/b><\/td>\nApr 2022<\/td>\nApr 2027<\/td>\nApr 2032<\/td>\nApr 2037<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)<\/b><\/td>\nApr 2020<\/td>\nApr 2025<\/td>\nApr 2030<\/td>\nApr 2035<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)<\/b><\/td>\nApr 2018<\/td>\nApr 2023<\/td>\nApr 2028<\/td>\nApr 2033<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)<\/b><\/td>\nApr 2016<\/td>\nApr 2021<\/td>\nApr 2026<\/td>\nApr 2031<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)<\/b><\/td>\nApr 2014<\/td>\nApr 2019<\/td>\nApr 2024<\/td>\nApr 2029<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

As you see in the table, the support for LTS releases include 5 years of standard support for free<\/b>, including security updates for packages in Canonical-supported Main<\/code> repository, Hardware enablement (HWE) with major Kernel version updates and graphics stacks, some popular app updates (e.g., Firefox), and bug fixes and maintenance updates to ensure stability.<\/p>\n

For user with Ubuntu Pro subscription (see how to enable Ubuntu Pro<\/a>), there’ll be another 5 years of security updates for packages in Main<\/code> and Universe<\/code> repositories, and bug-fixes to ensure stability.<\/p>\n

Ubuntu Pro is free for personal users<\/b> on up to 5 machines, and on up to 50 machines for active Ubuntu Community members, while, enterprise customers and others need to pay for support. See Ubuntu Pro pricing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro provides 5 years more security coverage and support. However, it’s only available for Ubuntu Pro paying customers who pay extra<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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image from Ubuntu website<\/p><\/div>\n

In short, Ubuntu LTS now has 5 years of standard support for free, another 5 years of support through Ubuntu Pro that’s free for personal users, and 5 years more security coverage for paying customers pay extra.<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Ubuntu LTS releases, starting from Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the official support has been extended to 15 years. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced the expansion of the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro few days ago. Along with the Standard and Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) support, the total coverage is expanded to 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50027","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=50027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}