systemd

Comprehensive overview of the systemd product lifecycle - Releases, last patch, long-term support, maintenance and support

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What is systemd?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

systemd 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 (systemd) release, version and end-of-life information

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

Facts and figures about systemd

Product

systemd

Vendor

systemd

Latest version

257.5

Number of releases

119

Number of versions

275

Number of unstable versions

Number of versions affected by CVE

190

Licence

GNU General Public License v2

Licence details

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/LICENSE.GPL2

Last verification date

2025-05-21

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systemd

Comprehensive overview of the systemd product lifecycle - Releases, last patch, long-term support, maintenance and support

What is systemd?

The entire lifecycle of systemd

Facts and figures about systemd

Questions or interested? Talk to me!

systemd

systemd

System component

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