Ubuntu announced its 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) release almost 9 months ago, on April 13, 2017. As a non-LTS release, 17.04 has a 9-month support cycle and, as such, will reach end of life on Saturday, January 13th. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 17.04. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 17.04 is via Ubuntu 17.10. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Upgrades Ubuntu 17.10 continues to be actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug fixes. Announcements of security updates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list, information about which may be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce Development of a complete response to the highly-publicized Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities is ongoing, and due to the timing with respect to this End of Life, we will not be providing updated Linux kernel packages for Ubuntu 17.04. We advise users to upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 and install the updated kernel packages for that release when they become available. For more information about Canonical’s response to the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, see: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/01/04/ubuntu-updates-for-the-meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities/ 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 customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2018-January/000227.html Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Fri Jan 5 22:23:25 UTC 2018 by Steve Langasek, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team
January 29th, 2018 at 11:05:33 GMT+0000
Everyone understands EOL for supported software, but to disable the upgrade mechanism at the same time by removing the releasee files is backward at best. This is what one could expect from Microshaft… not Canonical.
I took you guys a long time, but you finally got your first trike.
Discontinue support, but leave the upgrade open for Christ’s sake.
Sammy Kat
February 24th, 2018 at 09:09:47 GMT+0000
The update mechanism was not disabled. After any release becomes EOL, the repository is moved [from archive.ubuntu.com] to old-releases.ubuntu.com. If you point your sources.list there you’ll be able to re-add software, but won’t get any updates because of the EOL. If you need help with this, go to a help forum. For information about forums available, please refer to https://community.ubuntu.com/t/community-support/709