14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical’s new policy to provide support for only nine months for non-LTS systems is now into effect and has had a rather bizarre consequence – Ubuntu 13.04 will reach end of life before Ubuntu 12.10.
Ubuntu 13.04 is officially supported for nine months, and Ubuntu 12.10 still has the two-year support. This could have been a problem for the users who wanted to upgrade to the new Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.10, for example. The problem has been solved by Canonical in a very simple manner.
“Since 13.04 will go end of life before 12.10, we will need to skip over 13.04 in the upgrade path. This will be implemented on the server (and with an SRU of the update-manager package to 12.10) to show the direct upgrade as an available option,” said Steve Langase, engineering manager for the Ubuntu Engineering Team at Canonical, and Ubuntu core-dev.
In case you were wondering, users will also be able to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.