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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 894

By wildmanne39 | Published: 2025-06-02

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 894 for the week of May 25 – 31, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

In this issue we cover:

Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) began on May 29, 2025
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS has reached End-Of-Life (EOL)
Bringing together 20 years of documentation
Ubuntu Stats
Hot in Support
LXD: Weekly news #396
Rocks Public Journal; 2025-05-30
Other Meeting Reports
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Successful Training Session by Ubuntu Nepal in Collaboration with GNOME Nepal
Web Frontend deployment with Ubuntu Workshop @ Pohang
LoCo Events
LXD 6.4 has been released
Dependency merging in APT 3.1.0ubuntu2
Supercharging Ubuntu Releases: Monthly Snapshots & Automation
Ubuntu Summit 25.10 is coming to your circle of friends, from London
The 2025 Frankfurt Engineering Sprint: What did you miss?
Apport local information disclosure vulnerability fixes available
Other Community News
Ubuntu Cloud News
In the Blogosphere
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
Updates and Security for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, and 25.04
And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

Krytarik Raido
Bashing-om
Chris Guiver
Wild Man
Din Mušić – LXD
Cristovao Cordeiro (cjdc) – Rocks
And many others

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Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal) began on May 29, 2025

By guiverc | Published: 2025-05-30

This is a follow-up to the Extended Support warning sent one month ago to confirm that as of May 29, 2025, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS standard support has ended. No more package updates are planned to be accepted to the primary archive of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

Remember that if you can’t upgrade to 22.04 LTS or later immediately, Canonical provides Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to users with Ubuntu Pro. You can find more info about Ubuntu Pro here:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-20-04-lts-end-of-life-standard-support-is-coming-to-an-end-heres-how-to-prepare
https://ubuntu.com/esm

The original Extended Support warning follows, with upgrade instructions:

Ubuntu released its 20.04 (Focal Fossa) release 5 years ago, on March 23, 2020. As with the earlier LTS releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 5 years. The standard support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will transition to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) on May 29, 2025.

Users are encouraged to evaluate and upgrade to our latest 24.04 LTS release via 22.04 LTS. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is via Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Instructions and caveats for the upgrades may be found at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JammyUpgrades for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NobleUpgrades for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS continue to be actively supported with security updates and bug fixes. All announcements of official security updates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list, information about which may be found here:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce

Canonical provides Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to customers through Ubuntu Pro. Further information can be found here:

https://ubuntu.com/blog/focal-fossa-end-of-standard-support
https://www.ubuntu.com/esm

Since its launch in October 2004, Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes, schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to customize or alter their software in order to meet their needs.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Thu May 29 16:37:01 UTC 2025 by Ural Tunaboyu, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team.