Display release information using command-line.
Ubuntu and Debian release information is provided by the distro-info package.
$ apt search distro-info-*
Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done devscripts/jammy 2.22.1ubuntu1 amd64 scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier distro-info/jammy,now 1.1build1 amd64 [installed,automatic] provides information about the distributions' releases distro-info-data/jammy-updates,jammy-updates,now 0.52ubuntu0.2 all [installed,automatic] information about the distributions' releases (data files) libdistro-info-perl/jammy,jammy 1.1build1 all information about distributions' releases (Perl module) python3-distro-info/jammy,jammy,now 1.1build1 all [installed,automatic] information about distributions' releases (Python 3 module)
Use distro-info or ubuntu-distro-info to access Ubuntu release data or debian-distro-info to query Debian related information.
Debian
Display help information.
$ debian-distro-info --help
Usage: debian-distro-info [options]
Options:
-h --help show this help message and exit
--date=DATE date for calculating the version (default: today)
--series=SERIES series to calculate the version for
-y[MILESTONE] additionally, display days until milestone
--days=[MILESTONE] (created, release, eol, eol-lts, eol-elts)
--alias=DIST print the alias (oldstable, stable, testing, unstable)
relative to the given distribution codename
-a --all list all known versions
-d --devel latest development version
-t --testing current testing version
-s --stable latest stable version
-o --oldstable latest oldstable version
--supported list of all supported versions (including development)
-l --lts list of all LTS supported versions
-e --elts list of all Extended LTS supported versions
--unsupported list of all unsupported stable versions
-c --codename print the codename (default)
-f --fullname print the full name
-r --release print the release version
See debian-distro-info(1) for more info.
List every codename.
$ debian-distro-info --all
buzz rex bo hamm slink potato woody sarge etch lenny squeeze wheezy jessie stretch buster bullseye bookworm trixie sid experimental
Lest every full distribution name.
$ debian-distro-info --all --fullname
Debian 1.1 "Buzz" Debian 1.2 "Rex" Debian 1.3 "Bo" Debian 2.0 "Hamm" Debian 2.1 "Slink" Debian 2.2 "Potato" Debian 3.0 "Woody" Debian 3.1 "Sarge" Debian 4.0 "Etch" Debian 5.0 "Lenny" Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" Debian 7 "Wheezy" Debian 8 "Jessie" Debian 9 "Stretch" Debian 10 "Buster" Debian 11 "Bullseye" Debian 12 "Bookworm" Debian 13 "Trixie" Debian "Sid" Debian "Experimental"
Display latest development codename.
$ debian-distro-info --devel
sid
Display current testing release version.
$ debian-distro-info --testing --release
12
Display latest stable distribution.
$ debian-distro-info --stable --fullname
Debian 11 "Bullseye"
Display oldstable codename.
$ debian-distro-info --oldstable
buster
List suppored distributions.
$ debian-distro-info --supported --fullname
Debian 11 "Bullseye" Debian 12 "Bookworm" Debian "Sid" Debian "Experimental"
List unspported distributions.
$ debian-distro-info --unsupported --fullname
Debian 1.1 "Buzz" Debian 1.2 "Rex" Debian 1.3 "Bo" Debian 2.0 "Hamm" Debian 2.1 "Slink" Debian 2.2 "Potato" Debian 3.0 "Woody" Debian 3.1 "Sarge" Debian 4.0 "Etch" Debian 5.0 "Lenny" Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" Debian 7 "Wheezy" Debian 8 "Jessie" Debian 9 "Stretch" Debian 10 "Buster"
Display LTS supported codenames.
$ debian-distro-info --lts
buster
Display Extended LTS supported codenames.
$ debian-distro-info --elts
stretch
Display distibution name that was stable at specific point of time.
$ debian-distro-info --stable --date 2000-01-01 --fullname
Debian 2.1 "Slink"
Display release for specific series.
$ debian-distro-info --series woody --release
3.0
Display days till end of life for stable distribution.
$ debian-distro-info --days=eol --stable
542
Display data source.
$ cat /usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv
version,codename,series,created,release,eol,eol-lts,eol-elts 1.1,Buzz,buzz,1993-08-16,1996-06-17,1997-06-05 1.2,Rex,rex,1996-06-17,1996-12-12,1998-06-05 1.3,Bo,bo,1996-12-12,1997-06-05,1999-03-09 2.0,Hamm,hamm,1997-06-05,1998-07-24,2000-03-09 2.1,Slink,slink,1998-07-24,1999-03-09,2000-10-30 2.2,Potato,potato,1999-03-09,2000-08-15,2003-07-30 3.0,Woody,woody,2000-08-15,2002-07-19,2006-06-30 3.1,Sarge,sarge,2002-07-19,2005-06-06,2008-03-30 4.0,Etch,etch,2005-06-06,2007-04-08,2010-02-15 5.0,Lenny,lenny,2007-04-08,2009-02-14,2012-02-06 6.0,Squeeze,squeeze,2009-02-14,2011-02-06,2014-05-31,2016-02-29 7,Wheezy,wheezy,2011-02-06,2013-05-04,2016-04-26,2018-05-31,2020-06-30 8,Jessie,jessie,2013-05-04,2015-04-25,2018-06-17,2020-06-30,2022-06-30 9,Stretch,stretch,2015-04-25,2017-06-17,2020-07-06,2022-06-30,2024-06-30 10,Buster,buster,2017-06-17,2019-07-06,2022-08-14,2024-06-30,2026-06-30 11,Bullseye,bullseye,2019-07-06,2021-08-14,2024-08-14 12,Bookworm,bookworm,2021-08-14 13,Trixie,trixie,2023-08-01 ,Sid,sid,1993-08-16 ,Experimental,experimental,1993-08-16
Ubuntu
Display help information.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --help
Usage: ubuntu-distro-info [options]
Options:
-h --help show this help message and exit
--date=DATE date for calculating the version (default: today)
--series=SERIES series to calculate the version for
-y[MILESTONE] additionally, display days until milestone
--days=[MILESTONE] (created, release, eol, eol-server, eol-esm)
-a --all list all known versions
-d --devel latest development version
-s --stable latest stable version
--lts latest long term support (LTS) version
--supported list of all supported versions (including development)
--supported-esm list of all Ubuntu Advantage supported stable versions
--unsupported list of all unsupported stable versions
-c --codename print the codename (default)
-f --fullname print the full name
-r --release print the release version
See ubuntu-distro-info(1) for more info.
Display all distribution names.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --all --fullname
Ubuntu 4.10 "Warty Warthog" Ubuntu 5.04 "Hoary Hedgehog" Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" Ubuntu 6.06 LTS "Dapper Drake" Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Ubuntu 8.04 LTS "Hardy Heron" Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster"
Display development distribution.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --devel --fullname
Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster"
Display stable distribution.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --stable --fullname
Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu"
Display LTS distribution.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --lts --fullname
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish"
List supported distributions.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --supported --fullname
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" Ubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster"
List Ubuntu Advantage supported stable distribution names.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --supported-esm --fullname
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish"
List unsupported release numbers.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --unsupported --release
4.10 5.04 5.10 6.06 LTS 6.10 7.04 7.10 8.04 LTS 8.10 9.04 9.10 10.04 LTS 10.10 11.04 11.10 12.04 LTS 12.10 13.04 13.10 14.04 LTS 14.10 15.04 15.10 16.04 LTS 16.10 17.04 17.10 18.10 19.04 19.10 20.10 21.04 21.10
Get the number of days till end of life for LTS distribution.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --lts --days=eol
1521
Get the number of days till the end of life for LTS distribution using Ubuntu Advantage.
$ ubuntu-distro-info --lts --days=eol-esm
3348
Display data source.
$ cat /usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv
version,codename,series,created,release,eol,eol-server,eol-esm 4.10,Warty Warthog,warty,2004-03-05,2004-10-20,2006-04-30 5.04,Hoary Hedgehog,hoary,2004-10-20,2005-04-08,2006-10-31 5.10,Breezy Badger,breezy,2005-04-08,2005-10-12,2007-04-13 6.06 LTS,Dapper Drake,dapper,2005-10-12,2006-06-01,2009-07-14,2011-06-01 6.10,Edgy Eft,edgy,2006-06-01,2006-10-26,2008-04-26 7.04,Feisty Fawn,feisty,2006-10-26,2007-04-19,2008-10-19 7.10,Gutsy Gibbon,gutsy,2007-04-19,2007-10-18,2009-04-18 8.04 LTS,Hardy Heron,hardy,2007-10-18,2008-04-24,2011-05-12,2013-05-09 8.10,Intrepid Ibex,intrepid,2008-04-24,2008-10-30,2010-04-30 9.04,Jaunty Jackalope,jaunty,2008-10-30,2009-04-23,2010-10-23 9.10,Karmic Koala,karmic,2009-04-23,2009-10-29,2011-04-30 10.04 LTS,Lucid Lynx,lucid,2009-10-29,2010-04-29,2013-05-09,2015-04-30 10.10,Maverick Meerkat,maverick,2010-04-29,2010-10-10,2012-04-10 11.04,Natty Narwhal,natty,2010-10-10,2011-04-28,2012-10-28 11.10,Oneiric Ocelot,oneiric,2011-04-28,2011-10-13,2013-05-09 12.04 LTS,Precise Pangolin,precise,2011-10-13,2012-04-26,2017-04-28,2017-04-28,2019-04-28 12.10,Quantal Quetzal,quantal,2012-04-26,2012-10-18,2014-05-16 13.04,Raring Ringtail,raring,2012-10-18,2013-04-25,2014-01-27 13.10,Saucy Salamander,saucy,2013-04-25,2013-10-17,2014-07-17 14.04 LTS,Trusty Tahr,trusty,2013-10-17,2014-04-17,2019-04-25,2019-04-25,2024-04-25 14.10,Utopic Unicorn,utopic,2014-04-17,2014-10-23,2015-07-23 15.04,Vivid Vervet,vivid,2014-10-23,2015-04-23,2016-02-04 15.10,Wily Werewolf,wily,2015-04-23,2015-10-22,2016-07-28 16.04 LTS,Xenial Xerus,xenial,2015-10-22,2016-04-21,2021-04-21,2021-04-21,2026-04-23 16.10,Yakkety Yak,yakkety,2016-04-21,2016-10-13,2017-07-20 17.04,Zesty Zapus,zesty,2016-10-13,2017-04-13,2018-01-13 17.10,Artful Aardvark,artful,2017-04-13,2017-10-19,2018-07-19 18.04 LTS,Bionic Beaver,bionic,2017-10-19,2018-04-26,2023-04-26,2023-04-26,2028-04-26 18.10,Cosmic Cuttlefish,cosmic,2018-04-26,2018-10-18,2019-07-18 19.04,Disco Dingo,disco,2018-10-18,2019-04-18,2020-01-23 19.10,Eoan Ermine,eoan,2019-04-18,2019-10-17,2020-07-17 20.04 LTS,Focal Fossa,focal,2019-10-17,2020-04-23,2025-04-23,2025-04-23,2030-04-23 20.10,Groovy Gorilla,groovy,2020-04-23,2020-10-22,2021-07-22 21.04,Hirsute Hippo,hirsute,2020-10-22,2021-04-22,2022-01-20 21.10,Impish Indri,impish,2021-04-22,2021-10-14,2022-07-14 22.04 LTS,Jammy Jellyfish,jammy,2021-10-14,2022-04-21,2027-04-21,2027-04-21,2032-04-21 22.10,Kinetic Kudu,kinetic,2022-04-21,2022-10-20,2023-07-20 23.04,Lunar Lobster,lunar,2022-10-20,2023-04-20,2024-01-25
Additional information
Use launchpad to inspect Ubuntu package and salsa to locate Debian package.
