Linux Mint end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for Linux Mint, read on 30 Sep 2026: when security support ends for each version (cycle), when active support ends, and extended support where the record shows it. Below them, what Cyber Essentials, the Essential Eight, CIS Controls v8, PCI DSS and NIST SP 800-53 ask of a version past its end.
- Oldest version still in support
- 21, security support to 30 Apr 2027
- Next end date
- 21.3, security support ends 30 Apr 2027
- Editions and channels
- LTS marks a long-term support version, with longer dates than the standard versions beside it.
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for Linux Mint, authoritative; each version below links its own notice where the record carries one
- Record
- Linux Mint
- Kind
- operating system
- Versions in the record
- 22
- Versions past vendor support
- 13
- Essential Eight class
- an operating system: Patch operating systems asks that operating systems no longer supported by vendors are replaced, from ML1 (the held ML2 text carries the ML1 set).
- Source
- endoflife.date/linuxmint, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
Linux Mint versions and their support dates
as at 30 Sep 2026| Cycle | Released | Active support ends | Security support ends | Extended support ends | On the read date | Vendor notice | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22.3 LTS | 11 Jan 2026 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2029 | none in the record | supported | notice | |
| lmde7 LMDE 7 | 14 Oct 2025 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | notice | |
| 22.2 LTS | 4 Sep 2025 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2029 | none in the record | supported | notice | |
| 22.1 LTS | 16 Jan 2025 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2029 | none in the record | supported | notice | |
| 22 LTS | 25 Jul 2024 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2029 | none in the record | supported | notice | |
| 21.3 LTS | 12 Jan 2024 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2027 | none in the record | supported | notice | |
| lmde6 LMDE 6 | 27 Sep 2023 | not given separately | 1 Jan 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 21.2 LTS | 16 Jul 2023 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2027 | none in the record | supported | notice | |
| 21.1 LTS | 20 Dec 2022 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2027 | none in the record | supported | notice | |
| 21 LTS | 31 Jul 2022 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2027 | none in the record | supported | notice | |
| lmde5 LMDE 5 | 20 Mar 2022 | not given separately | 1 Jul 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 20.3 LTS | 7 Jan 2022 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 20.2 LTS | 8 Jul 2021 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 20.1 LTS | 8 Jan 2021 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 20 LTS | 27 Jun 2020 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| lmde4 LMDE 4 | 20 Mar 2020 | not given separately | 1 Aug 2022 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 19.3 LTS | 18 Dec 2019 | not given separately | 1 Apr 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 19.2 LTS | 2 Aug 2019 | not given separately | 1 Apr 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 19.1 LTS | 19 Dec 2018 | not given separately | 1 Apr 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 19 LTS | 29 Jun 2018 | not given separately | 1 Apr 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 18.3 LTS | 27 Nov 2017 | not given separately | 3 May 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 18.1 | 27 Jan 2017 | not given separately | 1 Apr 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice |
A version this table does not list is not in the record: the finder reads it as unknown, never supported. The dates are the record's own; nothing here states a date the record does not hold.
What the schemes ask of a version past its end
- Cyber Essentials
- software on in-scope devices licensed and supported by the vendor, meaning it still receives security updates; unsupported software removed or segregated (SU.1, SU.4). Cyber Essentials Plus: removed, or isolated with compensating controls (PM-02).
- Essential Eight
- An operating system: Patch operating systems asks that operating systems no longer supported by vendors are replaced, from ML1 (the held ML2 text carries the ML1 set).
- CIS Controls v8, Safeguard 2.2
- only software that still receives vendor support may be marked authorised; unsupported software kept for the mission needs a recorded exception with compensating controls and the acceptance of the remaining risk; support status checked at least monthly.
- PCI DSS 12.3.4
- hardware and software reviewed at least every 12 months: that vendors still supply timely security fixes, end-of-life announcements documented, and a remediation plan for outdated technology approved by senior management.
- NIST SP 800-53 SA-22
- system components replaced when support is no longer available from the developer, vendor or manufacturer, or alternative sources of continued support provided.