With the recent release of Fedora 24, Fedora 22 will officially enter End Of Life (EOL) status on July 19th, 2016. After July 19th, all packages in the Fedora 22 repositories will no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates, and no new packages will be added to the Fedora 22 collection.
Upgrading to Fedora 23 or Fedora 24 before July 19th 2016 is highly recommended for all users still running Fedora 22.
Looking back at Fedora 22
Fedora 22 was released in May 2015, and one of the more notable changes at release time was that
was replaced by
as the default package manager in Fedora.
Fedora 22 Workstation screenshot
About the Fedora Release Cycle
The Fedora Project provides updates for a particular release up until a month after the second subsequent version of Fedora is released. For example, updates for Fedora 23 will continue until one month after the release of Fedora 25, and Fedora 24 will continue to be supported up until one month after the release of Fedora 26.
The Fedora Project wiki contains more detailed information about the entire Fedora Release Life Cycle, from development to release, and the post-release support period.
Cătălin George Feștilă
Will be great if you told us about the process of Fedora final Release like criteria and requirements to do that. It will increase the confidence of users. I know the process. Good article.
Omer
Hi,
Is it possible to upgrade straight from 22 to 24?
Or do I have to first upgrade to 23?
Thanks,
Omer
Justin W. Flory
As of now, you should be able to upgrade directly.
Omer
Thank you –
So there’s no need to change anything from the directions in https://fedoramag.wpengine.com/upgrading-fedora-23-workstation-to-fedora-24/ ?
Roger Beaumont
How? I’ve tried
dnf system-upgrade download –releasever 24 –no-downgrade
and it faieled.
I also tried
dnf system-upgrade download –releasever 23
aand that failed too, so what now?
Adam Rodgers
dnf system-upgrade download –-releasever=24
robertoteles
Hi, I updgraded my system seamless, from 21 to 23 all my applications and programs running without issues, first upgrade 22 (with yum) an then 23 (with dnf) I suppose its the same in your case
ifoolb
Though I know it has reached EOF, I’m still a bit surprised that it reaches EOF. I vividly recall the days when I was looking forward to Fedora 21, now they all gone.
Oriol Rossich
Hi all,
Is it possible to have an updated an customized Fedora 22 ISO with all updates till now for the packages and repositories installed on my PC?
I currently have Unreal Engine 11.0 installed on my Fedora 22 (compiled from scratch) and I had issues early on Fedora 23 (tested Unreal Engine 4.8 and 4.9) so I had to revert to Fedora 22 where I could compile again with no issues.
I would like to maintain Fedora 22 at the moment, or to have two separate installations to ensure it is working properly:
– Fedora 22
– Fedora 23 or 24
Is it possible to do it? Some years ago I was able to customize Ubuntu installations easily with a software and installing and updating packages the same way as in an installed OS.
Is there something like this for Fedora?
At the moment Fedora is my preferred distro and I wouldn’t change to Ubuntu or Linux Mint of course.
Thanks a lot for your support.
DavWal
I’m quite new with the Linux system and I was given an older version a few months ago (I believe its version is in the “mid teens” ) How do I find out which version I am running and is it recommended for me to upgrade to the latest?
Justin W. Flory
One quick way to tell what version of Fedora you are running is opening a terminal window and typing
. This will tell you your version of Fedora. Especially if you are in the mid-teens, you will definitely want to consider upgrading. Your system may be vulnerable to severe security vulnerabilities if it’s that old. I don’t know specific instructions on how to upgrade from such an old release, however. Your best bet might be to consider backing up your data and reinstalling from scratch.