Is 22.04 no longer supported as an LTS version?

[Bret Busby]

On 16/10/25 21:05, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 16/10/25 20:51, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 16/10/25 20:45, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>> Hi, Am Donnerstag, dem 16.10.2025 um 20:17 +0800 schrieb Bret
>>> Busby:
>>>> In the message below, the security patches for 22.04 appear to
>>>> be available to only paid subscribers ("Ubuntu Pro").
>>>>
>>> Ubuntu Pro has nothing to do with payments, it is a free service
>>> unless you want to use it commercially for a datacenter or some
>>> such  ...
>>>
>>> Up to 22.04 packages from universe only got security patches from
>>> the community ... that means about 4-5 packages got fixed from the
>>> whole lot of 25000 packages over the lifetime of an LTS simply
>>> because there were not many community contributors ...
>>>
>>> With 22.04 Canonical decided to hire a bunch of new security 
>>> maintainers to actually offer the same level of CVE fixes in
>>> universe as it does for main, this is why apt now shows you the
>>> available fixes ...
>>>
>>> ciao oli
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Thank you for the clarification.
>>
> 
> However, I assume that the patches are included in Ubuntu Pro, but, not
> in the mainstream release?
> 
> Apart from the security notification of the problem and the patching, I
> have not seen an available update for my ffmeg ; the version shown as 
> installed, and, showing as the latest available version (from synaptic), is
> 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
> whereas the patch in the security notification, has the suffix +ems ;

Wrong - the suffix is "+esm9".

> " ffmpeg                          7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm9"
> 
> My version of ffmpeg has not been updated for a while (synaptic, in the 
> Properties, does not show either the date that the package was released, 
> or, the date that the package was installed or last updated, by 
> installation/update), and, the security notification is timestamped 
> about three hours ago.
> 
> 


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