Lifecycle guide for Fedora from Fedora Project

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-08-18

What is Fedora?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

Fedora creates an innovative, free, and open source platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users.

The entire lifecycle of Fedora

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Fedora. 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.

Fedora (Fedora Project) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Fedora (Fedora Project)

What is the Fedora release strategy?

The Fedora Project releases a new version of Fedora Linux approximately every six months and provides updated packages (maintenance) to these releases for approximately 13 months. When a release reaches the point where it is no longer supported when no updates are created for it, then it is considered End of Life (EOL). Branches for new packages in the SCM are not allowed for distribution N after the Fedora N+2 release and new builds are no longer allowed.