14 DAY TRIAL // The Fedora 25 Linux operating system is going to reach end of life (EOL) in two weeks, so the Fedora Project urges all users to upgrade to a newer release.
Released last year on November 22, Fedora 25 was the first ever release of the Red Hat-sponsored GNU/Linux distribution to ship with the next-generation Wayland display server by default for the Workstation edition, which uses the GNOME desktop environment. Fedora 25 was also one of the first distros to make this major move.
Like any other Fedora release, Fedora 25 received thirteen months of support, during various of the included components received updates to newer versions as they were pushed upstream. But, as all good things must come to an end, beginning December 12, 2017, the Fedora Project will no longer support Fedora 25.
Its software repositories will no longer receive security patches and software updates, nor new packages, so it's a good idea to prepare to upgrade to a newer release, such as Fedora 26, which will be supported until November 2018, or the recently released Fedora 27 by following these instructions.
"After December 12th, all packages in the Fedora 25 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. Furthermore, no new packages will be added to the Fedora 25 collection," said Ryan Lerch. "Upgrading to Fedora 27 or Fedora 26 before December 12th 2017 is highly recommended for all users still running Fedora 25."
Fedora 27 to be supported until November 2019
We recommend users to upgrade to Fedora 27, which is the latest and most advanced version of the GNU/Linux distribution. It ships with the Linux 4.13 kernel and GNOME 3.26 desktop environment for the Workstation edition. Many of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software versions are included in this release.
Fedora Project usually provides updates for certain Fedora Linux release until a month after the second succeeding version of the operating system is released. As such, Fedora 26 will receive updates for one more month after the release of Fedora 28 next year, and Fedora 27 will be supported up until one month after the release of Fedora 29 in 2019.