systemd: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for systemd from Red Hat

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-11

What is systemd?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementsystemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It provides a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system.
 

The entire lifecycle of systemd

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of systemd. 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.
systemd (Red Hat) release, version and end-of-life information
Xsystemd (Red Hat) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product systemd (Red Hat)
 

Facts and figures about systemd

Product
systemd
Vendor
Red Hat
Latest version
0:252-46.el9_5.3
Number of releases
3
Number of versions
40
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
0
Licence
GNU General Public License v2
Licence details
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/LICENSE.GPL2
 
 

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