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CTOnews.com June 1, Canonical announced today that the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system family has officially transitioned to extended Security maintenance (ESM), effective May 31, 2023.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) continues its tradition of providing commercial support for Ubuntu LTS versions in the form of extended Security maintenance (CTOnews.com Note: ESM,Extended Security Maintenance), which reached the end of standard support after five years of maintenance, and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM product support will end in April 2026.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was released five years ago, April 26, 2018, and will now be supported by Canonical for critical bug Bug and security fixes for five years through Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure's extended Security maintenance (ESM) package until April 2028.

Enterprises that rely on stability and are not yet able to upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu LTS recommend purchasing Ubuntu Pro subscriptions if they want to benefit from the five-year support of the Bionic Beaver installation.

Ubuntu Pro is suitable for amd64, arm64, s390X and PowerPC architectures, for desktops, servers, IoT devices, public clouds on AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure and Google Cloud, as well as IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud platforms.

"by subscribing to Ubuntu Pro, you can ensure that the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS deployment is fully supported by 2028. This extended support period provides continuous help and maintenance for your workload," Canonical said.

Users who have no plans to buy Ubuntu Pro subscriptions are urged to upgrade their installation to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) as soon as possible, which brings an updated kernel to support more devices, as well as many update packages.

Canonical pointed out that the upgrade path supported from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is through Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and then to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Users running Ubuntu 18.04 after May 31, 2023 will not receive any security updates, which means that this installation will face a security threat.

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