Fedora Fedora Project Operating system Release Version Major Minor Patch End-of-life EOL Support End-of-support EOS Maintenance End-of-maintenance EOM Security Long-term support LTS Vulnerabilities Common vulnerabilities & exposures CVE Security product-release-end-of-life-overview.xml free-trial.xml 📅 Last update on 2025-08-08 What is Fedora?   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. Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Fedora (Fedora Project)   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. Product Fedora Vendor Fedora Project Latest version 42 Number of releases 42 Number of versions 43 Number of unstable versions 1 Number of versions affected by CVE 36 Licence MIT Licence Licence details https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Licenses/LicenseAgreement Product site Release info Version command Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux