14 DAY TRIAL // Red Hat's Fedora Platform and Program Manager Jan Kuřík has informed the community of the Fedora Linux operating system that the Fedora 23 release is about to reach end of life soon.
The Fedora 23 Linux OS was released last year, on November 3, and it introduced a bunch of great Open Source apps and GNU/Linux technologies that were popular at that point in time, including the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, Linux 4.2.0 kernel, a version optimized for running on ARM-based systems and the first Cinnamon Spin.
We hate to bring you guys bad news, but all good things must come to an end, and it looks like Fedora 23 will reach end of life in approximately three weeks after writing this blog story, on December 20, 2016. After that date, the OS will no longer receive security fixes and software updates, which means that it will be vulnerable to attacks.
"Fedora 23 support is going to be EOL on Tuesday, December 20th, 2016. At this day we are going to close all the Fedora 23 bugs which will remain open. You have last few weeks to submit your updates to the Fedora 23, if you have any, before the Fedora 23 release becomes unsupported," said Jan Kuřík, Platform & Fedora Program Manager.
Therefore, if you're still running Fedora 23 on your machine(s), please upgrade to Fedora 24, which will be supported at least until the end of summer 2017, or the recently released Fedora 25 operating system, for which we have an in-depth tutorial if you don't know how to upgrade your Fedora installation.