Fwd [ubuntu-release] Re: LTS status for Ubuntu flavours]

[Harald Sitter]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Rohan Garg <rohangarg at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think you are misreading that.  It specifically talks about users
>>> potentially
>>> needing to upgrade only every 4 years.
>>>
>>
>> Unless my eyes are deceiving me, the last line specifically talks about
>> upgrading twice every 4 years, which equates to a support lifetime of 2
>> years?
>
> That has nothing to do with support (aka anyone can upload updates and
> security fixes are backported whenever applicable, and occasionally
> new ISOs are rolled), but specifically is about supported upgrade
> paths.
>
> LTS -> LTS -> LTS supported
> LTS ->          -> LTS not supported (i.e. skipping one LTS when upgrading).
>
> so you can run 13.04 until 2018, but you cannot update to 17.04
> without going through 15.04. Which is the standing practise.

eh, 14.04/16.04/18.04 respectively ;)