The ability to schedule application updates in a fail-safe environment continues to be cited as the top value for ESM adoption, ”Canonical says of its offering.
“Organizations use ESM to address security compliance concerns while managing the upgrade process to newer versions of Ubuntu with full support. after the five-year support period.ĮSM provides mission critical organizations and service providers with a protected buffer in which they can plan their migration to a newer version of Ubuntu, which offers full support, without being vulnerable to discovered security issues. Therefore, Canonical announced today that it plans to extend the ESM program to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS operating system users who are willing to pay for security updates. Now, after almost five years since its release, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) is also nearing the end of its useful life which will happen next spring on April 30, 2019. Ubuntu's "Long Term Support" (LTS) versions of its Debian-based operating system have seen five years of support and updates from the development group since the arrival of 12.04 LTS (the previous LTS release did not take that long to arrive).Ĭanonical extended support in recognition that some users they just don't want, or can't, migrate to newer versions.Īs 12.04 LTS approached the end of its long life, in April 2017, Ubuntu released a lifeline to users they couldn't move into the shiny new world of 16.04 LTS in the form of at least two more years of critical CVE fixes.Įxtended Security Maintenance (ESM) it came at a price, of course.
The fact that This is where Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) comes in.Ĭanonical has assured us that 14.04 LTS users need not fear impending completion of the operating system's lifespan next year and confirmed that it will keep the security fixes a little longer. How should we know Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 'Trusty Tahr' will reach end of life (EOL) in April 2019, but Canonical knows that not everyone who runs or trusts the release is in a position to update immediately. Canonical confirmed support for Ubuntu 14.04 Extended Maintenance (ESM) will be available from next year.
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