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# Blog posts tagged "What is"

#### [What is an Ubuntu LTS release?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-an-ubuntu-lts-release)

This article was updated in September 2021 to reflect the new Ubuntu lifecycle. Come April 23rd 2020, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be available. It will be the first LTS version of Ubuntu since the 18.04 release, and in this blog, I want to answer the common question, what is an LTS? For a deeper look

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