Blog posts tagged "ESM"

JetPack 4 EOL – how to keep your userspace secure during migration

NVIDIA JetPack 4 reached its end-of-life (EOL) in November 2024, marking the end of security updates for this widely deployed stack. JetPack 4 has driven...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS End Of Standard Support – activate ESM to keep your fleet of devices secure and operational

Focal Fossa will reach the End of Standard Support in May 2025. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has become a critical component for millions of IoT and embedded devices...

How Ubuntu Pro + Support keeps your Ubuntu 20.04 LTS secure and stable

Running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with ESM keeps your systems up to date with essential security patches. But when something breaks or a complex issue arises, Ubuntu...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Standard Support has ended. Here’s how to prepare.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) has reached the end of its standard five-year support window on 31 May 2025. It’s time to start thinking about your options for...

Is open-source as secure as proprietary software?

Are the security issues we are seeing related to the use of open-source software? Does proprietary software have any more inherent safety or security...

ROS 2 Foxy and ROS Melodic EOL – Keep your robots up and running

ROS Melodic EOL is around the corner. With more than 1,004 repositories in rosdistro, Melodic is among the top 3 ROS distributions (with Indigo and Kinetic)....

Ubuntu 18.04 EOL – keep your fleet of devices up and running

Ubuntu 18.04 ‘Bionic Beaver’ is reaching End of Standard Support this May. If you don’t take action, you will transition to 18.04 EOL (End Of Life). This...

Create FIPS-enabled Ubuntu container images with 10-year security updates

Canonical’s UA and Pro customers can now fully benefit from their subscriptions directly in containerised environments and pipelines. The new UA client...

Enhance the security of your open-source applications and share feedback

Are you spending time on high-impact, high-value activities, or are you constantly derailed by maintenance, support, and deployment challenges? Does your...

Bare metal cloud support for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS

Now that Canonical is prolonging the lifecycle of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ and 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ to a total of ten years, it’s a good time to...

Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years

LONDON, UK – Canonical announces the lifecycle extension of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ and 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ to a total of ten years. This...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS transitions to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM)

This article was updated in September 2021 to reflect the new lifecycle of 16.04. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ transitions into the extended security...

Hardened ROS with 10 year security from Open Robotics and Canonical

Canonical ROS ESM customers now can access a long-term supported ROS and Ubuntu environment by the Ubuntu and ROS experts. Learn more about ROS ESM. 6 April...

What lies on the second phase of Ubuntu LTS? Two years of Ubuntu 14.04 in ESM

Two years ago, we launched the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) phase of Ubuntu 14.04, providing access to CVE patches through an Ubuntu Advantage for...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade vs extended security maintenance

Weighing the options with an Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus is transitioning from its five-year standard security maintenance window in...

Less than 6 months to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will enter the extended security maintenance (ESM) period in April 2021. This article explains the ESM period and provides a...