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

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>

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**Confirmation of this End of Life date was published to the Security Announcements mailing list, [here](https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-January/002382.html) confirming that Raring 13.04 is now End of Life.**

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**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.**