Fedora 8 Gets an End of Life Extension

by Kristin Shoemaker - Dec. 01, 2008Comments (0)

Via Linux Weekly News comes the announcement that Fedora 8, scheduled for retirement on December 25th, will be supported a bit longer -- until January 7th, 2009. At that point, updates will cease (this includes security updates), new builds will not be allowed in the buildsystem, and all bugs filed against Fedora 8 will be closed.

Fedora 10 was released November 25th. The Fedora team has traditionally ceased support for a version a month after the second full release version is available (e.g. Fedora 7 was no longer supported the month after Fedora 9's release). The FESCo team decided the day after Fedora 10's roll out that an extension might be in order, presumably due to the holidays.


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