Ubuntu 22.10 is coming to the end of its lifecycle
Ubuntu 22.10 is coming to the end of its lifecycle
Ubuntu 22.10 is coming to the end of its lifecycle.
Canonical announced today that the Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) operating system release will reach end-of-life on July 20, 2023, and urges users to upgrade their systems to the latest Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) release as soon as possible.
Released on October 20, 2022, Ubuntu 22.10 is a short-term support release, supported by only nine months of software and security updates.
After July 20, 2023, Canonical will no longer push software and security updates to Ubuntu 22.10 users, which means that these users will become more vulnerable to various vulnerabilities and attacks over time.
Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” is currently the latest Ubuntu operating system, and it will continue to receive security updates and bug fixes until January 2024.
Compared to Ubuntu 22.10, the Ubuntu 23.04 release comes with an updated Linux kernel, better hardware support, a new GNOME desktop environment, updated zstd compression code, BPF improvements, the default Java runtime and JDK has been updated to OpenJDK v17, and the Python version has been updated to v3.11, etc.
Of course, in addition to choosing Ubuntu 23.04, users can also choose to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 or reinstall Ubuntu 20.04, both of which are long-term support versions, providing support for 5 years from the date of release.
Currently Canonical has started the development of the next interim version – Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur”, which will be released in October this year.
