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To be carried out by: Ubuntu Release Manager

Goals:

• Inform users of a supported Ubuntu release of its imminent end-of-life and corresponding termination of maintenance and support

30 days prior to end of life:

• Send EndOfLifeAnnouncement to ubuntu-announce, ubuntu-security-announce

• Post news item on website

• Add news item to UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

At end of life:

• Set release to OBSOLETE in Launchpad

• update http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release and set the release to "Supported: 0" (mvo)

• Get somebody with access to the Canonical wiki to update https://wiki.canonical.com/Support/UbuntuLifeCycles for Canonical support

• Deactivate any milestones for the release. Look at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/$releasename/+milestones

• At some point (? how long?) after the EndOfLifeAnnouncement:

  • Archive the release on [http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ old-releases]

  • Move any images from cdimage.ubuntu.com to old-images and notify IS team for archival

  • Remove it from [http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ the archive]

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