elementary OS: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for elementary OS from elementary

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-02-15

What is elementary OS?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementelementary OS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS. It promotes itself as a "thoughtful, capable, and ethical" replacement to macOS and Windows and has a pay-what-you-want model. The operating system, the desktop environment, and accompanying applications are developed and maintained by Elementary, Inc.
 

The entire lifecycle of elementary OS

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of elementary OS. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product elementary OS (elementary)
 

Facts and figures about elementary OS

Product
elementary OS
Vendor
elementary
Latest version
8.1
Number of releases
7
Number of versions
45
Number of unstable versions
25
Number of versions affected by CVE
-
Licence
GNU General Public License v3
Licence details
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_OS
 
 

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