Fedora 29 End of Life

Do note that the Fedora Magazine forgot to do this; I just have to do it by myself. Anyways...

With the recent release of Fedora 31, Fedora 29 officially entered End Of Life (EOL) status since Nov 26, 2019. This impacts any systems still on Fedora 29. If you’re not sure what that means to you, read more below.

As of this Date, packages in the Fedora 29 repositories no longer receive security, bugfix, or enhancement updates. Furthermore, the community adds no new packages to the Fedora 29 collection starting at End of Life. Essentially, the Fedora 29 release will not change again, meaning users no longer receive the normal benefits of this leading-edge operating system.

There’s an easy, free way to keep those benefits. If you’re still running an End of Life version such as Fedora 29, now is the perfect time to upgrade to Fedora 30 or to Fedora 31. Upgrading gives you access to all the community-provided software in Fedora.

Looking back at Fedora 29

Fedora 29 was released on October 30, 2018. This maked the last release of the Fedora 20 series. As part of their commitment to users, Fedora community members released over 9,300 updates.

This release featured, among many other improvements and upgrades:

• GNOME 3.30
• the Fedora Modularity feature across different variants
• ZRAM for ARM images
• A Vagrant image for Fedora Scientific

Of course, the Project also offered numerous alternative spins of Fedora, and support for multiple architectures.

About the Fedora release cycle

The Fedora Project offers updates for a Fedora release until a month after the second subsequent version releases. For example, updates for Fedora 30 continue until one month after the release of Fedora 32. Fedora 31 continues to be supported up until one month after the release of Fedora 33.


The Fedora Project wiki contains more detailed information about the entire Fedora Release Life Cycle. The lifecycle includes milestones from development to release, and the post-release support period.