Every update released by Mandriva involves extensive testing and QA, we feel that we are better able to provide support for, and deliver timely support of, our products by discontinuing support for legacy distributions.

This page outlines and clarifies the product lifetime for the Mandriva Linux operating system, and gives the end of life dates of our products.

  • Mandriva will provide 12 months of desktop updates · and 18 months of base updates · for distributions.

    This means that applications such as window managers, desktop environments, browsers, etc. will have a 12 month package update life, while applications such as the kernel, Apache, and other base components will have a package update life of 18 months.

    At certain times, Mandriva may choose to extend updates support for certain versions of Mandriva Linux.

  • Server products have a full life updates support · of no less than 5 years.

  • Some desktop products have an extended · (18 months more) updates support for enterprise desktop offering.

The following is a schedule of when updates support will be dropped for products that are currently receiving updates:

You can get some precise list of all advisories on our current supported products.

Time (release date → end of life)
Today
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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Enterprise Server 5 June 16 June 16
Corporate Server 4 April 1 Sept. 20
Corporate Server 3 April 16 Dec. 15
MNF 2 April 10 June 21
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Linux 2010 Nov. 3 Nov. 3 May 3
Linux 2009 Spring Apr. 29 Apr. 29 Oct. 29
Linux 2009 Oct. 9 Oct. 15 Apr. 15
Linux 2008 Spring Apr. 15 Apr. 15 Oct. 15
Linux 2008 Oct. 9 Oct. 9 Apr. 9 Oct. 9