End of support date for OS distributions

This page lists the end-of-support dates for different distributions which we use at the project. Each section should provide a link to the upstream master source, and also, where possible, list the cadence to indicate how often new releases come out

Linux

Ubuntu

• POLICY: 6-monthly releases in April and September of each year (previews available ~3 months before), every fourth one (Even numbered years in April) is designated an LTS which has five years of regular support and 10 years of extended (including for community-maintained apps) Non-LTS are supported for nine months
• Upstream details: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle | https://ubuntu.com/kernel/lifecycle
• Show info cat /etc/lsb-release && uname -r && dpkg -l | grep libc-bin

Debian

• Upstream details: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

Version	Kernel	glibc	release date	end of support	extended support
18.04	4.15	2.27	2018-04	2023-03	2028-03
20.04	5.4	2.31	2020-04	2025-03	2030-03
22.04	5.15	2.35	2022-04	2027-03	2032-03
22.10	-	2.35	2022-10	2023-06	n/a
23.04	-	2.36	2023-04	2024-12	n/a

AIX

• Upstream details https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-support-lifecycle-information
• Show info oslevel -s or oslevel -r to show current level.
• Table is only showing original levels for each major release and ones we have used or are likely to use:

Version	Release date	End of Support	Next SP
AIX 6.1 TL9	2013-11	2017-04-30
AIX 7.1 TL00	2010-09	2013-11-30
AIX 7.1 TL04	2015-12	2019-12-31
AIX 7.1 TL05	2017-10	2023-04-30	2023-03-10
AIX 7.2 TL0	2015-12	2018-12-31
AIX 7.2 TL4	2019-11	2022-11-30
AIX 7.2 TL5	2020-11	TBC	2023-04-28
AIX 7.3 TL0	2021-12	2024-12-31	2023-03-10
AIX 7.3 TL1	2022-12	2025-12-31	2023-04-28