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Why is Ubuntu 20.04 asking me to upgrade to 22.04 (with 116 days left of upgrades and bug fixes) if this version is supposed to be EOL only in 2025?

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Every time I log in and every day a popup box warns me that this version Kubuntu focal 20.04.5 LTS has only 116 days left of updates and bug fixes. It looks like it comes from the KDE Daemon?

If I hover over the KDE daemon icon I get this (note the one day difference between them - weird).

However looking at the releases page it says Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS end of standard support is in 2025 and end of life is 2030.

$ cat /etc/os-release 

NAME="Ubuntu"

VERSION="20.04.5 LTS (Focal Fossa)"

ID=ubuntu

ID_LIKE=debian

PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS"

VERSION_ID="20.04"

HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"

SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"

BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"

VERSION_CODENAME=focal

UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

I am very confused. Do I really need to upgrade to 22.04 in 116 days?

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answered 3 Years ago eighethod · Accepted Answer

Kubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu, thus comes with three years of supported life as stated in all release notes & annoucements; eg.

"Maintenance updates will be provided for 5 years for Ubuntu Desktop,Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Cloud, and Ubuntu Core. All the remaining flavours will be supported for 3 years. Additional security support is available with ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)"

from https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2022/09/01/ubuntu-20-04-5-lts-released/ so the number of days matches Kubuntu 20.04 LTS, which matches the Kubuntu 20.04 LTS release notes too

I booted up one of the Lubuntu 20.04 LTS systems I have, let it sit idle for some time & explored the system trying to trigger upgrade notices (it only reported updates were available); but none mentioned the 2023-April EOL date as per your post. I applied all upgrades, rebooted & tried again, still no message with it left ~15 minutes some of which had my explore the system trying to trigger messages (this time I only got messages saying no updates were available as expected). However I did not get any release-upgrade offers. or messages triggered by the Ubuntu-release-upgrade tool which maybe what causes you to see what you posted. If it's the release-upgrade tool that causes the message, I didn't make that offer upgrade on this system.

I've heard mention of what you describe a number of times before, but I've never seen it on systems I use. For the record; the Lubuntu box I tested also has xubuntu-desktop installed on it too (ie. multi-desktop install) so it wasn't a clean system; but I suspect both Xubuntu & Lubuntu act the same in this regard.

(Lubuntu uses the LXQt desktop, thus has Qt5 & a number of Kubuntu components included in the install, but there are still many differences with what you as a Kubuntu user are using compared to my testing with a Lubuntu install; my concentration with Lubuntu is because that's one team I'm heavily involved with)