{"id":202760,"date":"2017-03-15T08:16:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T06:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=202760"},"modified":"2017-03-15T08:18:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T06:18:33","slug":"ubuntu-12-04-extended-security-maintenance-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/202760-ubuntu-12-04-extended-security-maintenance-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canonical will\u00a0continue to provide\u00a0security updates to Ubuntu 12.04 clients on its Ubuntu Advantage service.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 12.04\u00a0(Precise Pangolin), a long-term support edition of the operating system,\u00a0released on 26 April 2012 and will reach\u00a0its end of life on 25 April 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who want continued security updates for Pangolin can receive them through Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance (ESM).<\/p>\n<p>This will provide security fixes for the kernel and essential user space packages in Ubuntu 12.04, said Canonical.<\/p>\n<p>The updates are delivered in a secure, private archive available to Ubuntu Advantage customers.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users are encouraged to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu Advantage\u00a0customers can get\u00a0ESM credentials by filing a support request at support.canonical.com.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/189678-amazon-and-canonical-partner-for-ubuntu-cloud-support.html\">Amazon and Canonical partner for Ubuntu cloud support<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canonical will continue to provide security updates to Ubuntu 12.04 clients on its Ubuntu Advantage service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":89177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[969,41924,967,41922,41920],"class_list":["post-202760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-canonical","tag-extended-security-maintenance","tag-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu-12-04-esm","tag-ubuntu-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202792,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202760\/revisions\/202792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}