Users can also upgrade to the Fedora 26 Linux release

Dec 13, 2017 11:37 GMT  ·  By

As of December 12, 2017, the Fedora 25 Linux operating system is no longer supported and it won't receive further updates or security patches as it reached end of life.

Fedora 25 Linux was released last year on November 22, and will be remembered as the first release of the GNU/Linux distribution to adopt the next-generation Wayland display server by default for its Workstation edition using the acclaimed GNOME desktop environment.

Fedora Project usually provides updates for each Fedora Linux release until a month after the second succeeding version of the operating system is released. Fedora 25 received thirteen months of support, and now that Fedora 27 Linux is out as of November 14, 2017, users need to upgrade.

Fedora 25 will no longer receive any software updates or security patches, which means that it will soon become a vulnerable operating system to all sort of attacks, so it is highly recommended that you upgrade to a supported release as soon as possible after reading this article.

"After December 12th, all packages in the Fedora 25 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates," wrote Fedora Project's Ryan Lerch in an announcement a couple of weeks ago. "Furthermore, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 25 collection."

Upgrade to Fedora 26 or Fedora 27 today

If you're still using Fedora 25 on your PC, you'll have to upgrade to either Fedora 26, which will receive updates for one more month after the release of Fedora 28 next year in October/November, or Fedora 27, which will be supported up until one month after the release of Fedora 29 in autumn 2019.

Of course, we always recommend upgrading to the most recently release, Fedora 27 in this case, as they usually ship with the most recent GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source apps. Fedora 27 is using the Linux 4.13 kernel and GNOME 3.26 desktop environment for the Workstation edition.

Upgrade instructions from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 or from Fedora 25 to Fedora 27 are provided by the Fedora Project here and here. So make sure you read them if you don't know how to upgrade your installations, and remember to always keep your computers up to date at all times.