Security – Ubuntu Studio https://ubuntustudio.org A free and open operating system for creative people. Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:34:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 https://ubuntustudio.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/d4dd/cropped-favicon.png Security – Ubuntu Studio https://ubuntustudio.org 32 32 Ubuntu Studio 24.10 Has Reached End-Of-Life (EOL) https://ubuntustudio.org/2025/07/ubuntu-studio-24-10-has-reached-end-of-life-eol/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://ubuntustudio.org/?p=3006 Continue reading]]> As of July 10, 2025, all flavors of Ubuntu 24.10, including Ubuntu Studio 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole”, have reached end-of-life (EOL). There will be no more updates of any kind, including security updates, for this release of Ubuntu.

If you have not already done so, please upgrade to Ubuntu Studio 25.10 via the instructions provided here. If you do not do so as soon as possible, you will lose the ability without additional advanced configuration.

No single release of any operating system can be supported indefinitely, and Ubuntu Studio has no exception to this rule.

Regular Ubuntu releases, meaning those that are between the Long-Term Support releases, are supported for 9 months and users are expected to upgrade after every release with a 3-month buffer following each release.

Long-Term Support releases are identified by an even numbered year-of-release and a month-of-release of April (04). Hence, the most recent Long-Term Support release is 24.04 (YY.MM = 2024.April), and the next Long-Term Support release will be 26.04 (2026.April). LTS releases for official Ubuntu flavors (not Desktop or Server which are supported for five years) are three years, meaning LTS users are expected to upgrade after every LTS release with a one-year buffer.

]]> Ubuntu Studio 23.10 Has Reached End-Of-Life (EOL) https://ubuntustudio.org/2024/07/ubuntu-studio-23-10-has-reached-end-of-life-eol/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:27:18 +0000 https://ubuntustudio.org/?p=2838 Continue reading]]> As of July 11, 2024, all flavors of Ubuntu 23.10, including Ubuntu Studio 23.10, codenamed “Mantic Minotaur”, have reached end-of-life (EOL). There will be no more updates of any kind, including security updates, for this release of Ubuntu.

If you have not already done so, please upgrade to Ubuntu Studio 24.04 LTS via the instructions provided here. If you do not do so as soon as possible, you will lose the ability without additional advanced configuration.

No single release of any operating system can be supported indefinitely, and Ubuntu Studio has no exception to this rule.

Regular Ubuntu releases, meaning those that are between the Long-Term Support releases, are supported for 9 months and users are expected to upgrade after every release with a 3-month buffer following each release.

Long-Term Support releases are identified by an even numbered year-of-release and a month-of-release of April (04). Hence, the most recent Long-Term Support release is 24.04 (YY.MM = 2024.April), and the next Long-Term Support release will be 26.04 (2026.April). LTS releases for official Ubuntu flavors (not Desktop or Server which are supported for five years) are three years, meaning LTS users are expected to upgrade after every LTS release with a one-year buffer.

]]> Ubuntu Studio 23.04 Has Reached End-Of-Life (EOL) https://ubuntustudio.org/2024/01/ubuntu-studio-23-04-has-reached-end-of-life-eol/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://ubuntustudio.org/?p=2695 Continue reading]]> As of January 25, 2024, all flavors of Ubuntu 23.04, including Ubuntu Studio 23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”, have reached end-of-life (EOL). There will be no more updates of any kind, including security updates, for this release of Ubuntu.

If you have not already done so, please upgrade to Ubuntu Studio 23.10 via the instructions provided here.

No single release of any operating system can be supported indefinitely, and Ubuntu Studio has no exception to this rule.

Regular Ubuntu releases, meaning those that are between the Long-Term Support releases, are supported for 9 months and users are expected to upgrade after every release with a 3-month buffer following each release.

Long-Term Support releases are identified by an even numbered year-of-release and a month-of-release of April (04). Hence, the most recent Long-Term Support release is 22.04 (YY.MM = 2022.April), and the next Long-Term Support release will be 24.04 (2024.April). LTS releases for official Ubuntu flavors (not Desktop or Server which are supported for five years) are three years, meaning LTS users are expected to upgrade after every LTS release with a one-year buffer.

]]> Ubuntu Studio 22.10 Has Reached End-Of-Life (EOL) https://ubuntustudio.org/2023/07/ubuntu-studio-22-10-has-reached-end-of-life-eol/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:03:48 +0000 https://ubuntustudio.org/?p=2585 Continue reading]]> As of July 20, 2022, all flavors of Ubuntu 22.10, including Ubuntu Studio 22.10, codenamed “Kinetic Kudu”, have reached end-of-life (EOL). There will be no more updates of any kind, including security updates, for this release of Ubuntu.

If you have not already done so, please upgrade to Ubuntu Studio 23.04 via the instructions provided here.

No single release of any operating system can be supported indefinitely, and Ubuntu Studio has no exception to this rule.

Regular Ubuntu releases, meaning those that are between the Long-Term Support releases, are supported for 9 months and users are expected to upgrade after every release with a 3-month buffer following each release.

Long-Term Support releases are identified by an even numbered year-of-release and a month-of-release of April (04). Hence, the most recent Long-Term Support release is 22.04 (YY.MM = 2022.April), and the next Long-Term Support release will be 24.04 (2024.April). LTS releases for official Ubuntu flavors (not Desktop or Server which are supported for five years) are three years, meaning LTS users are expected to upgrade after every LTS release with a one year buffer.

]]> Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS reaching End-Of-Life on April 28th 2023 https://ubuntustudio.org/2023/04/ubuntu-studio-20-04-lts-reaching-end-of-life-on-april-28th-2023/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:07:14 +0000 https://ubuntustudio.org/?p=2538 Continue reading]]> In a few short weeks, Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS will reach the end of its three years of supported life provided by the Ubuntu Studio team. All users are urged to upgrade to 22.04 LTS at this time.

This means that the Xfce, audio, video, graphics, photography, and publishing components of your system will no longer receive updates, plus we at Ubuntu Studio won’t support it after 28-April-2023, though your base packages from Ubuntu will continue to receive security updates from Ubuntu until 2025 since Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud and Ubuntu Core continue to receive updates.

Unfortunately, due to the change in desktop environment from Xfce to KDE’s Plasma Desktop, there is no supported in-place upgrade path. The only supported upgrade path is to back-up your /home/{user} folder and reinstall the operating system.

No single release of any operating system can be supported indefinitely, and Ubuntu Studio has no exception to this rule.

Long-Term Support releases are identified by an even numbered year-of-release and a month-of-release of April (04). Hence, the most recent Long-Term Support release is 22.04 (YY.MM = 2022.April), and the next Long-Term Support release will be 24.04 (2024.April). LTS releases for official Ubuntu flavors (not Desktop or Server which are supported for five years) are three years, meaning LTS users are expected to upgrade after every LTS release with a one year buffer.

]]> Ubuntu Studio 21.10 has reach End Of Life (EOL) https://ubuntustudio.org/2022/07/ubuntu-studio-21-10-has-reach-end-of-life-eol/ Thu, 14 Jul 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://ubuntustudio.org/?p=2406 Continue reading]]> As of July 14, 2022, all flavors of Ubuntu 21.10, including Ubuntu Studio 21.10, codenamed “Impish Indri”, have reached end-of-life (EOL). There will be no more updates of any kind, including security updates, for this release of Ubuntu.

If you have not already done so, please upgrade to Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS via the instructions provided here.

No single release of any operating system can be supported indefinitely, and Ubuntu Studio has no exception to this rule.

Regular Ubuntu releases, meaning those that are between the Long-Term Support releases, are supported for 9 months and users are expected to upgrade after every release with a 3-month buffer following each release.

Long-Term Support releases are identified by an even numbered year-of-release and a month-of-release of April (04). Hence, the most recent Long-Term Support release is 22.04 (YY.MM = 2022.April), and the next Long-Term Support release will be 24.04 (2024.April). LTS releases for official Ubuntu flavors (not Desktop or Server which are supported for five years) are three years, meaning LTS users are expected to upgrade after every LTS release with a one year buffer.

]]> About Website Security https://ubuntustudio.org/2020/10/about-website-security/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 17:21:09 +0000 https://ubuntustudio.org/?p=2081 Continue reading]]> UPDATE 2020-10-16: This is now fixed.

We are aware that, as of this writing, our website is not 100% https. Our website is hosted by Canonical. There is an open ticket to get everything changed-over, but these things take time. There is nothing the Ubuntu Studio Team can do to speed this along or fix it ourselves. If you explicitly type-in https:// to your web browser, you should get the secure SSL version of our site.

Our download links, merchandise stores, and donation links are unaffected by this as they are hosted elsewhere.

We thank you for your understanding.

]]> Ubuntu Studio 19.10 Support Ends Tomorrow! https://ubuntustudio.org/2020/07/ubuntu-studio-19-10-support-ends-tomorrow/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:18:03 +0000 http://ubuntustudio.org/?p=1986 Continue reading]]> Ubuntu Studio 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) was released October 17, 2019 and will reach End of Life on Friday, July 17, 2020. This means that after that date there will be no further security updates or bugfixes released. We highly recommend that you update to 20.04 LTS immediately if you are still running 19.10.

After July 17th, the only supported release of Ubuntu Studio will be 20.04 LTS. All other releases of Ubuntu Studio will be considered unsupported, and will no longer receive any further updates from the Ubuntu Studio team.

]]> Change your passwords! ubuntuforums.org was hacked https://ubuntustudio.org/2013/07/change-your-passwords-ubuntuforums-org-was-hacked/ Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:14:06 +0000 http://ubuntustudio.org/?p=821 Continue reading]]> Hello Ubuntu Studio developers, contributors and users,
This is an emergency announcement.

The Ubuntu Forums is currently down for maintenance, including Ubuntu Studio’s sub-forum.
At 20th July, 2013 20:31 UTC, Canonical IS discovered that hackers have attacked the Ubuntu Forums, and has got hold of every users’ username and password. The Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance 4 minutes later.
Canonical IS are trying to recover the service as soon as possible. Other Ubuntu services are not affected.
Please see https://ubuntuforums.org/announce/
If you are a Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu Studio sub-forum user, here are some suggestions on what you need to do.
1. Please change every password that is the same as your Forums account as requested by the Ubuntu Forums.
2. Please use other support channels to receive support. You can find support in the Ubuntu Studio user IRC channel (#ubuntustudio), Ubuntu Studio User and Support mailing list (ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com) or Ask Ubuntu (https://askubuntu.com).

Thank you for your attention.

Regards,
Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
Ubuntu Studio Release Manager

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