OS Platform End of Life (EOL) Announcement for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

by Julia Vural

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) is scheduled to reach its official end of life on May 31, 2025. In alignment with the upstream vendor’s lifecycle, we are also ending platform support for Ubuntu 20.04 for all our MySQL related product offerings. This date and others are published in advance on our Percona Release Lifecycle Overview page.

As part of our support policy, Percona will continue to provide advisory support for databases running on EOL platforms, but effective April 1, 2025, we have discontinued:

  • Delivery of new packages or binary builds

  • Distribution of hotfixes or bug fixes for Percona software on Ubuntu 20.04

  • OS-level support for issues not related to the database itself

However, all existing packages will remain available for download.

We are committed to ensuring a smooth and seamless experience for our users. Migrating to a supported operating system will ensure that you continue to receive security updates, bug fixes, and new features for our products.

We encourage you to take action promptly and plan your migration from Ubuntu Focal to a supported operating system. Each operating system vendor has different supported migration or upgrade paths to their next major release. Please contact us if you need assistance migrating your database to a different supported OS platform – we will be happy to assist you!

Note: If requested by a customer, we may provide updated Percona packages for up to six months beyond the Percona EOL date, as a courtesy grace period. ∎

Julia Vural

As a Software Engineering Manager at Percona, I have over 23 years of experience in software development, leadership, and innovation.

I am passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions that leverage agile methodologies, DevOps culture, and microservices architecture. I lead the effort on a cloud-friendly framework that is based on Angular, .Net Core, Elastic Search, Fluentd, Kibana, Jaeger, Rabbit MQ, Jasper Reports, Docker, and Kubernetes, and achieved a 40% improvement in development speed. I also have a master’s and a PhD degree in computer engineering, and I constantly seek to learn new technologies and skills.

See all posts by Julia Vural »

Discussion

We invite you to our forum for discussion. You are welcome to use the widget below.

Did you like this post? Why not read more?

Percona Bug Report: April 2025

Percona Bug Report: April 2025

At Percona, we operate on the premise that full transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in any...

Progress report on pg_tde - GA extension is nearer every day!

Progress report on pg_tde - GA extension is nearer every day!

Another week, another blogpost about the state of open source Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for PostgreSQL....

Setting Up and Monitoring MongoDB 8 Replica Sets with PMM 3 Using Docker: A Beginner-Friendly Guide

Setting Up and Monitoring MongoDB 8 Replica Sets with PMM 3 Using Docker: A Beginner-Friendly Guide

This guide explains how to set up a MongoDB 8 Replica Set and monitor it using PMM 3, all within Docker. We’ll guide you through the steps to create a local environment, configure the necessary compon...

✎ Edit this page on GitHub