Questions tagged [end-of-life]
This tag is used by moderators (for EOL notices) or by anyone for discussions about handling posts about EOL versions of Ubuntu.
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Tag for questions related to Ubuntu EOL
I posted a question about some specifics about Ubuntu EOL at Ubuntu end of life: will snap applications still receive updates?
I wasn't sure how to tag this because it isn't specific to a single ...
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End of Life Notice: Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) reached End of Life on July 14, 2022
This will be enforced starting from July 14, 2022 and onwards.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their life cycle. These releases are ...
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Should we make an exception to our general end-of-life policy for the 18.04 release?
Per the general end-of-life policy, as the 18.04 LTS release of Ubuntu will go out of support five years later in April 2023, questions asked about it afterwards will be closed on sight as off-topic, ...
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End of Life Notice: Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) reached End of Life on January 20, 2022
This will be enforced starting from January 20, 2022 and onwards.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching, or have reached, the end of their standard support period. ...
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Is Ubuntu 14.04 off-topic on Ask Ubuntu?
THREAD NOTICE: This issue has been raised to Mark Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu Community Council, and the Ubuntu Technical Board via this email message (TB is the only public archive version of the email)....
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Can we do away with, "We don't support EOL distributions" when it is tangential and completely and utterly unrelated to the question?
How can I push to Launchpad if port 22 is blocked??
Asked a question about using git, and pushing to Launchpad.
I was asked my distribution, I responded "19.10", and asked why that mattered. ...
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Is it the time to redefine "end of life"?
Based on my comments here and my messages in Raiders of the Lost Downboat, I think the term "end of life" is sometimes confusing and may be misleading for new users. As of now, one of the closing ...
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EOL Notice: Artful Aardvark (17.10) reached End of Life on July 19, 2018
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will be reaching End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially past end of life as of July 19, 2018:
Artful ...
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Close voters: we have a Reason for that (EoL posts are not necessarily duplicates)
Recently, I've seen almost every question where the OP is having a problem caused by using an EoL version of Ubuntu being closed as a duplicate of this:
How to install software or upgrade from an ...
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How should we handle new and future questions about Ubuntu Touch?
Recently I've been wondering whether we need to change our practice in view of the fact that Canonical is no longer developing Ubuntu Touch. As far as I know Ubuntu Touch is still out there running on ...
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EOL Notice: Yakkety Yak (16.10) reached End of Life on July 20, 2017
This will be enforced as of July 21, 2017.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that has reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of life as ...
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EOL Notice: Precise Pangolin (12.04) reached End of Life on April 28, 2017
This will be enforced starting on April 28, 2017.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of ...
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EOL Notice: Wily Werewolf (15.10) is now End of Life (as of July 28, 2016) (Enforcement starts July 29)
This will be enforced starting on July 29, 2016.
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of ...
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A note on flagging end of life questions
Recently in review, there seems to be a lot of questions flagged for end of life, the issue with these flags is that when the questions were written they were ON TOPIC, this is important, old ...
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EOL Notice: Vivid Vervet (15.04) is now EOL as of February 4, 2016
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached End of Life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of life as of February 4, 2016:
Vivid Vervet (15.04)...
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Errors while upgrading from a EOL release -- should the question be closed?
I started to see in the "Close Votes" review queue a bunch of questions like this:
Broken packages prevent 13.10 > 14.04 upgrade (...)
Now, this particular question has not been touched for months, ...
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Methods for combating EOL questions
I see an awful lot of questions on EOL releases, and I think that this site should have some automatic features to help combat it, as it is really quite a major thing with the quantity of them.
So I ...
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EOL Notice: Utopic (14.10) has now reached End of Life
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached end of life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of life as of July 23, 2015:
Utopic 14.10
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How do we differentiate between 12.04 and 12.04.5?
As far as I know, there is only one 12.04-related tag: 12.04.
Also, 12.04 (by itself) EOLed on August 8, 2014. 12.04.5 EOLs in April 2017.
As one is off-topic and the other is on-topic, how do we ...
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There are questions being closed as EOL when they are still supported
This question is because of some close votes due to EOL are wrong - I expect it is quite a lot.
This is a review of a question (admittedly too broad / unclear)- it was flagged as being EOL for being ...
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Community bumping on AU
The Community user bumps old, not-well-answered questions regularly.
While that maybe a good fit on most SE sites, I'm not sure of its applicability to AU. We follow a strong and strict release policy....
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What to do for questions on upgrading from EOL releases
So I came across a question where the OP was trying to upgrade from an EOL release. Under normal circumstances, any (new) questions about an EOL release should be closed, but what about someone trying ...
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What to do with out of date question with no answer?
This question was on topic and not a terrible question when it was asked. But it has received not answers, and is now off topic.
Just want to make sure I'm correct in thinking this should be closed. ...
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Clearing out Old Questions
Recently in the review queue I have seen a number of questions which had they been asked today would be off topic because they specifically refer to an end of life version of Ubuntu but were on topic ...
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Is it ok to mark EOL questions as duplicate?
I understand discussions about EOL releases here on meta are getting abundant, sorry about that.
But this question was inspired by this one: Cant boot from windows 8 after installing Ubuntu 13.04
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Non-EOL Notice: Quantal (12.10) remains supported through April 2014
Since 12.10 is non-LTS and 13.04 is non-LTS and 13.04 will be end-of-life in a week, it might seem like 12.10 must have been end-of-life a long time ago. But that is not the case. 12.10 is supported ...
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EOL Notice: Raring (13.04) is now past End of Life
This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that have reached end of life.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of life as of January 27, 2014:
Raring 13.04
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EOL Question Handling Discussion... again
So, because of Darren Cook's answer to the EOL reminder I made back in May, and how people apparently don't like the status quo, I'm dredging this whole discussion back up. Because of Darren. So ...
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Aren't Ubuntu Server end-of-life versions off topic?
The wiki document about the EOL Ubuntu versions mention that the server editions have longer life than the Desktop edition.
Is this applicable for questions on this site?
After read this question I ...
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EOL Notice: Hardy, Oneiric, Lucid (desktop) are now End of Life
This is a reminder/notice regarding now-EOL releases.
The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives are officially end of life as of today on May 9th, 2013:
Hardy Heron (8.04, all currently-...
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Dealing with past-EOL release questions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should we allow questions that are about releases which are considered End of Life?
How should we handle new questions regarding past-End-Of-Life releases of ubuntu?
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