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Tom
Asked: 2019-03-20 02:58:14 +0800 CST

When is the exact date for EOL of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

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Looking online I can see mention in a cached version of a blog.ubuntu.com post that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is EOL on 30th April 2019, however it has been updated to just April 2019. What is the official EOL date for 14.04 LTS?

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  1. Best Answer

    The EOL of Ubuntu 14.04 is on the 17th of April 2019.

    To obtain the EOL date of any Ubuntu distro you can use the following command

    $ ubuntu-distro-info --all -yeol -f 
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" 29

    It will print the days till support ends. Here 29 days.

    To install the command use

    $ sudo apt install distro-info

    To get the date, use e.g. the date command

    $ date +"%Y-%m-%d" --date '+29 day'   
2019-04-17

    You can automate this with sed, e.g. to get a list of currently supported releases with their EOL date:

    $ ubuntu-distro-info --supported -yeol -f | sed "s/.* \([0-9]*\)/echo -n '           &\r';date -d+\1day +%F/e"
2019-04-17 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" 28
2021-04-21 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" 763
2023-04-26 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" 1498
2019-07-18 Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" 120
2020-01-18 Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" 304
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  2. According to Ubuntu Version History - Wikipedia

    Normal LTS support is set to continue until 25 April 2019,[219] after which extended security maintenance will be available to Ubuntu Advantage customers and as a separate commercial purchase, as was the case previously with 12.04.[220]

    Considering the above statement normal LTS updates are expected to be received till 25 April '19.

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