Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is a new long-term service support release of the popular Linux distribution that may receive up to 12 years of support.

Core support for Ubuntu won’t change according to Shuttleworth. Ubuntu LTS versions continue to be supported for 5 years and non-LTS releases for 9 months. Ubuntu 23.04 is the current release version, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS the current long-term support release.

Ubuntu Pro subscribers may extend support of LTS versions by an additional 7 years going forward. Ubuntu Pro is available for Home users and Enterprise / business customers. The subscription is free at the time of writing for Home users and starts at $25 per year and machine for Enterprise customers. Server subscriptions start at $500 per month.

I find this very exciting though as it matches Redhat’s support length and should allow you to basically install 1 supported OS for the lifetime of a machine