The distro reaches end of life on June 23, 2015

May 28, 2015 03:30 GMT  ·  By

Dear Fedora fans, we are sorry to inform you today, May 28, that the Fedora Project will drop support for the Fedora 20 Linux operating system starting June 23, 2015, as the distribution reaches end of life (EOL).

Dubbed Heisenbug, the Fedora 20 operating system was released on December 17, 2013, in loving memory of Seth Vidal, a renowned Fedora developer, as well as to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Fedora Project.

Among its highlights, we can mention the GNOME 3.10 and KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 desktop environments, Ruby on Rails 4.0, NetworkManager improvements, systemd journal as the default logging solution, ARM as a primary architecture, as well as cloud and virtualization improvements.

Unfortunately, the distribution will reach end of life in approximately three weeks from the moment of writing this article, which means that it will no longer receive security/critical fixes and software updates, and no new packages will be added to its repository.

"Fedora 20 will reach end of life on 2015-06-23, and no further updates will be pushed out after that time," says Dennis Gilmore in an email. "Additionally, with the recent release of Fedora 22, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 20 collection."

Therefore, all Fedora 20 Linux users are urged to upgrade to the most recent version, Fedora 22, as soon as possible. For detailed upgrade instructions, please see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp.