This is a notice regarding releases of Ubuntu that will reach end of life in about 2 days The following versions of Ubuntu and derivatives will be officially **end of life** as of January 27, 2014: - Raring 13.04 New questions regarding the above posted after the aforementioned date may need to be considered **off-topic**. Old questions (posted before the end of life date) that are still being answered regarding these releases should have a comment included on them about upgrading to a supported release to continue to get support for their versions of Ubuntu. This information can be confirmed on the **[official Ubuntu Wiki page that lists all current, development, and end-of-lifed releases](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases)** <sub>The date "January 27, 2014" was established in an IRC discussion with the release team. It has been confirmed in [this announcement email](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-January/000178.html).</sub> ---- **Please make note that this is the first time that we will have a release EOL before an older release other than LTSes. 12.10 is not EOL-ing at this time, and has an EOL date of April 2013.**