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Gabriel Aguiar Noury
16 April 2025

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS End Of Standard Support – activate ESM to keep your fleet of devices secure and operational

Article Internet of Things

Focal Fossa will reach the End of Standard Support in May 2025. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has become a critical component for millions of IoT and embedded devices worldwide, including kiosks, digital signage solutions, industrial appliances, and robotic systems. The release has been foundational for companies innovating in...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
16 April 2025

Lidia Luna Puerta
17 February 2025

How Ubuntu Pro + Support keeps your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS secure and stable

Article Ubuntu

Running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with ESM keeps your systems up to date with essential security patches. But when something breaks or a complex issue arises, Ubuntu Pro + Support ensures you have Canonical experts on hand to help. Supplementing ESM with support gives you extra peace of mind, keeping your infrastructure stable,...

Lidia Luna Puerta
17 February 2025

Ishani Ghoshal
21 November 2024

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Standard Support has ended. Here’s how to prepare.

Article Ubuntu

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) has reached the end of its standard five-year support window on 31 May 2025. It’s time to start thinking about your options for upgrading. What is an Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) release? Ubuntu long-term support releases (LTS) are released every 2 years by Canonical. Canonical provides...

Ishani Ghoshal
21 November 2024

Henry Coggill
8 February 2023

Is open-source as secure as proprietary software?

Article Hardening

Are the security issues we are seeing related to the use of open-source software? Does proprietary software have any more inherent safety or security benefits? In this article we will explore these issues and give you some more insights into the nature of these software development paradigms.

Henry Coggill
8 February 2023

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
27 January 2023

ROS 2 Foxy and ROS Melodic EOL – Keep your robots up and running

Article Robotics

ROS Melodic EOL is around the corner. With more than 1,004 repositories in rosdistro, Melodic is among the top 3 ROS distributions (with Indigo and Kinetic). Together with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Melodic was widely used by many pioneering companies who deployed the first ROS devices to market. By the end of April, both...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
27 January 2023

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 January 2023

Ubuntu 18.04 EOL – keep your fleet of devices up and running

Article Internet of Things

Ubuntu 18.04 ‘Bionic Beaver’ is reaching End of Standard Support this May. If you don’t take action, you will transition to 18.04 EOL (End Of Life). This distribution of Ubuntu was installed by millions of users and powers up thousands of devices. From kiosks and appliances to IoT devices and robots, 18.04 helped many...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 January 2023

Valentin Viennot
25 May 2022

Create FIPS-enabled Ubuntu container images with 10-year security updates

Article Apps

Canonical’s UA and Pro customers can now fully benefit from their subscriptions directly in containerised environments and pipelines. The new UA client release (27.7+) makes it easier to enable FIPS mode in Ubuntu containers. It also automatically signs up CI/CD builds for 10-year security updates to never worry about...

Valentin Viennot
25 May 2022

Lech Sandecki
28 October 2021

Enhance the security of your open-source applications and share feedback

Article Ubuntu

Are you spending time on high-impact, high-value activities, or are you constantly derailed by maintenance, support, and deployment challenges? Does your organisation consume open-source software that needs security patching? Where do you get the security updates from, and how do you track what’s available? Are you...

Lech Sandecki
28 October 2021

Anton Smith
24 September 2021

Bare metal cloud support for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

Now that Canonical is prolonging the lifecycle of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ and 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ to a total of ten years, it’s a good time to reflect on how else Canonical supports these releases for bare metal cloud. Bare metal lifecycle management Whether you’re running a small or a large fleet of

Anton Smith
24 September 2021

Canonical
21 September 2021

Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years

Article Canonical announcements

LONDON, UK – Canonical announces the lifecycle extension of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ and 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ to a total of ten years. This lifecycle extension enables organizations to balance their infrastructure upgrade costs, by giving them additional time to implement their upgrade plan. The prolonged...

Canonical
21 September 2021

Canonical
3 May 2021

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS transitions to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM)

Article Cloud and server

This article was updated in September 2021 to reflect the new lifecycle of 16.04. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ transitions into the extended security maintenance (ESM) support phase at the end of April 2021 from its standard, five-year maintenance window for Ubuntu long term support (LTS) releases. Xenial Xerus is...

Canonical
3 May 2021

Canonical
6 April 2021

Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical ROS ESM customers now can access a long-term supported ROS and Ubuntu environment by the Ubuntu and ROS experts. Learn more about ROS ESM. 6 April 2021: Canonical and Open Robotics announced today a partnership for Robot Operating System (ROS) Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and enterprise support, as part...

Canonical
6 April 2021

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
30 March 2021

What lies on the second phase of Ubuntu LTS? Two years of Ubuntu 14.04 in ESM

Article Security

Two years ago, we launched the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) phase of Ubuntu 14.04, providing access to CVE patches through an Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure free or paid subscription. This phase extended the lifecycle of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, released in April 2014, to a total of ten years, ending in April 2024....

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
30 March 2021

Lech Sandecki
8 December 2020

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade vs extended security maintenance

Article Ceph

Weighing the options with an Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus is transitioning from its five-year standard security maintenance window in four months, leaving many asking the question: can I manage an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade by April 2021, or do I need more time to plan this migration? In the Less than

Lech Sandecki
8 December 2020

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