Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" LTS was released on 31 May 2014, remaining current until the end of November 2014 and supported until April 2019.[7] In July 2014 it was announced that Linux Mint 17 LTS was the first release of the 17.x series, and that for two years applications would be backported to 17.x, with security updates until 2019. The next release was announced to be 17.1.