Arch Linux Vinet, Griffin and Polyák 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 Arch Linux?   The entire lifecycle of Arch Linux The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Arch Linux. 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 Arch Linux (Vinet, Griffin and Polyák)   Arch Linux uses a rolling release model, meaning there are no "major releases" of completely new versions of the system. A regular system update is all that is needed to obtain the latest Arch software. The installation images released every month by the Arch team are simply up-to-date snapshots of the main system components. Product Arch Linux Vendor Vinet, Griffin and Polyák Latest version latest Number of releases 1 Number of versions 2 Number of unstable versions 0 Number of versions affected by CVE 0 Licence Free software Licence details Product site Release info Version command Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Linux