Comment 77 for bug 2055114
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| Michael Kofler (michael-kofler) wrote | #77 |
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Ubuntu LTS promises updates for five years. Ubuntu Pro increases this to 10 or even 12 years.
fail2ban is a pretty critical security component. It failed out of the box in Ubuntu 24.04. More than 2 months have passed and still no fix has been released.
This is NOT a specific criticism of the maintainers of fail2ban -- I am sure they are doing what they can, and the whole situation is somewhat unfortunate. The fix is imminent anyway.
But the bigger question remains: Should I trust Ubuntus/Canonicals update guarantees for a decade when they fail within the first few months? Not on an exotic package, but on a fairly mainstream security component? Is Ubuntu Server ready to go? I have had excellent experiences with Ubuntu Server in the past, but I have my doubts about the future.