Raring end of life 1/2014

**as2000** · March 22nd, 2013

Wait, what? Did I miss something here? I am still running a development release.

**ManamiVixen** · March 22nd, 2013

What? Raring reaches EOL in January of 2014? Thats 7 months from now. What is the problem you are having with that?

**Elfy** · March 22nd, 2013

Originally Posted by ManamiVixen

What? Raring reaches EOL in January of 2014? Thats 7 months from now. What is the problem you are having with that?

9 months.

Originally Posted by as2000

Wait, what? Did I miss something here? I am still running a development release.

Yes you missed something - they're changing the length of support.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/19/...Ubuntu+News%29

**ManamiVixen** · March 22nd, 2013

Elfy, thanks. I had a brain fart and meant to say 9 months....

**as2000** · March 22nd, 2013

Thanks Elfy. I however think that they should just focus on LTS releases and eliminate incremental releases.

**craig10x** · March 23rd, 2013

They are continuing with:

LTS (same as before...every 2 years and normal LTS support)

6 Month Releases (with 9 months of support instead of 18)

"Rolling Development" (supposed to begin with 13.04) but not actually called "Rolling" even though it essentially will be (lol)...they will make it so that it will point to each next development release without needing to actually upgrade to it...