Fedora 38 Lifecycle End: Updates Stopped on May 21, 2024

Fedora 38 will officially end its life cycle (EOL) on May 21, 2024, and will no longer receive any form of updates and support, including security patches, bug fixes and software upgrades. The Fedora project team will stop pushing updates to the Fedora 38 stable version at that time.

However, the Fedora 39 version will continue to receive updates until about a month after the release of Fedora 41. You can visit the official project wiki to view the full maintenance schedule for the Fedora version.

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• Fedora Release Cycle
• Fedora terminates support version

Upgrade Fedora 38 to the latest version

If you are currently using Fedora 38, we recommend you upgrade to the latest version to ensure your system is secure and maintain optimal performance. The latest version continues to receive updates.

We have published a step-by-step guide to help you upgrade your current Fedora installation to the latest version (Fedora 40 at the time of writing).

• How to upgrade from Fedora 39 to Fedora 40

Fedora Release Cycle

The Fedora project releases a new version approximately every six months. Each version receives approximately 13 months of package updates and maintenance.

This schedule gives users the flexibility to upgrade to each new version while still running an actively maintained and patched system.

For example, if you have Fedora 39 installed today, you can choose to upgrade to Fedora 41 when you release Fedora 41 a year later, and you can skip the 40 version if you want.

Your Fedora 39 installation will continue to receive updates until about a month after the release of version 41.

Fedora Terminate Support Version (EOL)

When the Fedora Linux version reaches the final maintenance period and no longer receives any updates or patches from the Fedora project team, it is considered to have reached the end of life (EOL). At this point, the release has completed its full support lifecycle.

Specifically, once the new Fedora version N 2 is available (for example, Fedora 41 when you use 39), the N version (Fedora 39) will have some critical events:

• New package branches are not allowed in the source code repository.
• New reconstructions of existing packages are not allowed.
• All updates and security patches will be stopped.

Essentially, during the EOL stage, the Fedora version is in a frozen and stagnant state and no further development or update is carried out.

The following Fedora Linux versions are not supported:

Using the EOL Fedora version puts your system at risk because it will have unfixed vulnerabilities, bugs, and incompatibility with newer software and services.

To maintain a secure, high-performance system, be sure to upgrade from the EOL Fedora version before reaching the final cut-off window (missing the opportunity to migrate to the current supported version).

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