Debian End-of-Life Tracker

Two support phases, and LTS is narrower than it sounds

Each Debian release gets roughly three years of regular support from the Debian Security Team, then hands off to the volunteer-run Debian LTS project for about two more years. LTS coverage is real but narrower than regular support — it's limited to specific architectures (typically i386, amd64, armhf, and arm64) and only covers packages that have an active maintainer sponsoring them, so a given host's exact package set may lose coverage before the headline LTS date.

Beyond LTS: commercial Extended LTS

After Debian LTS ends, a separate commercial offering called ELTS (run by Freexian, not the Debian Project itself) can extend security coverage for up to five more years on a paid basis — this tracker shows only the two official, community-run phases.