Alibaba Cloud may stop providing technical support for specific services for a variety of reasons, such as end of service lifecycle, end of third-party support, or evolution of open-source projects. We recommend that you stay up-to-date on technical support plans so that you can make informed and timely decisions on whether to update your services or software to general availability (GA) versions. When you use Elastic Compute Service (ECS), pay attention to the lifecycle plans of the operating systems contained in images that you use to create ECS instances. You can visit the official websites of the operating systems to obtain information about their lifecycle plans.
When an operating system version reaches its end of life (EOL), Alibaba Cloud stops providing support for ECS instances that run the operating system version.
Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 is an operating system provided by Alibaba Cloud. After Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 reaches EOL, Alibaba Cloud continues to provide technical support for Alibaba Cloud Linux 2.
For other third-party commercial and open-source operating system images, if the image providers stop providing support or the operating systems reach their EOL, Alibaba Cloud ends support for the images.
For more information about EOL plans of third-party operating systems, visit the official websites.
EOL plans of Alibaba Cloud Linux
Version | End-of-support date |
Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 | 2031-04-30 |
Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 | 2024-03-31 |
EOL plans of third-party operating systems
The following tables describe the EOL plans of some third-party operating system versions.
Anolis OS
Version
End-of-support date
Anolis OS 8
2031-06-30
Anolis OS 7
2024-06-30
CentOS
Version
Release date
End-of-support date
CentOS Stream 9
2021-12-03
2027-05-31
CentOS Stream 8
2019-09-24
2024-05-31
CentOS 8
2019-09-24
2021-12-31
CentOS 7
2014-07-07
2024-06-30
CentOS 6
2011-11-27
2020-11-30
CentOS 5
2007-04-12
2017-03-31
NoteFor information about what to do after CentOS Linux reaches EOL, see Options for dealing with CentOS Linux end of life.
Debian
Version
Codename
Release date
EOL
EOL Long Term Support (LTS)
EOL Extended Long Term Support (ELTS)
Debian 13
Trixie
To be decided
To be decided
To be decided
To be decided
Debian 12
Bookworm
To be decided
To be decided
To be decided
To be decided
Debian 11
Bullseye
2021-08-14
2024-07
2026-06
To be decided
Debian 10
Buster
2019-07-06
2022-07
2024-06
To be decided
Debian 9
Stretch
2017-06-17
2020-07-06
2022-06-30
To be decided
Debian 8
Jessie
2015-04-25
2018-06-17
2020-06-30
2022-06-30
Debian 7
Wheezy
2013-05-04
2016-04-25
2018-05-31
2020-06-30
Debian 6.0
Squeeze
2011-02-06
2014-05-31
2016-02-29
To be decided
Debian 5.0
Lenny
2009-02-14
2012-02-06
To be decided
To be decided
For information about EOL, EOL LTS, and EOL ELTS, see DebianReleases.
Ubuntu
Version
End-of-support date
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
2027-04
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
2025-04
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
2023-06
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
2021-04
NoteAlthough Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has reached the end of standard support, you can still obtain security updates with Extended Security Maintenance. For more information, see Security updates after the end of support and maintenance for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
2019-04
Red Hat
Version
Release date
End of Full Support date
End of Maintenance Support 1 date
End of Maintenance Support 2 date
End of Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) date
Final minor release
Red Hat 8
2019-05
2024-05
N/A
2029-05
To be decided
Red Hat 8.8
Red Hat 7
2014-06-10
2019-08-06
2020-08-06
2024-06-30
N/A
Red Hat 7.9
Red Hat 6
2010-11-10
2016-05-10
2017-05-10
2020-11-30
2024-06-30
Red Hat 6.10
Red Hat 5
2007-03-15
2013-01-08
2014-01-31
2017-03-31
2020-11-30
Red Hat 5.11
Red Hat 4
2005-02-14
2009-03-31
2011-02-16
2012-02-29
2017-03-31
Red Hat 4.9
For more information, see Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle.
FreeBSD
Version
Release date
End-of-maintenance date
FreeBSD 13.0
2021-04-13
3 months after FreeBSD 13.1 release
FreeBSD 12.3
2021-12-07
3 months after FreeBSD 12.4 release
FreeBSD 12.2
2020-10-27
2022-03-31
FreeBSD 12.1
2019-11-04
2021-01-31
FreeBSD 12.0
2018-12-11
2020-02-04
FreeBSD 11.4
2020-06-16
2021-09-30
FreeBSD 11.3
2019-07-09
2020-09-30
FreeBSD 11.2
2018-06-28
2019-10-31
FreeBSD 11.1
2017-07-26
2018-09-30
FreeBSD 11.0
2016-10-10
2017-11-30
OpenSUSE
Version
End-of-maintenance date
OpenSUSE 15.3
2022-11-30
OpenSUSE 15.2
2022-01-04
OpenSUSE 15.1
2021-02-02
OpenSUSE 15.0
2019-12-03
OpenSUSE 42.3
2019-07-01
OpenSUSE 42.2
2018-01-26
OpenSUSE 42.1
2017-05-17
SUSE Linux
Version
Release date
End of General Support date
End of Extended Support date
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3
2021-06-22
6 months after SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 release
To be decided
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2
2020-07-21
2021-12-31
2024-12-31
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
2019-06-24
2021-01-31
2024-06-31
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
2018-07-16
2019-12-31
2022-12-31
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
2019-12-09
2024-10-31
2027-10-31
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4
2018-12-12
2020-06-30
2023-06-30
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
2017-09-07
2019-06-30
2022-06-30
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
2016-11-08
2018-03-31
2021-03-31
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
2015-12-15
2017-05-31
2020-05-31
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
2014-10-27
2016-06-30
2019-07-01
Fedora
Version
End-of-maintenance date
Fedora 36
2023-05-16
Fedora 35
2022-11-15
Fedora 34
2022-05-17
Fedora 33
2021-11-30
Fedora 32
2021-05-25
Fedora 31
2020-11-24
Fedora 30
2020-05-26
Fedora 29
2019-11-26
Fedora 28
2019-05-28
Fedora 27
2018-11-30
Rocky Linux
Version
Release date
End-of-maintenance date
Rocky Linux 8.5
2021-11-14
2031-11-14
AlmaLinux
Version
Release date
End-of-maintenance date
AlmaLinux 8.5
2021-11
2031-11
Fedora CoreOS
To be decided
Windows Server
Version
End-of-update date
End-of-maintenance date
Windows Server 2022
2026-10-13
2031-10-14
Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
2024-01-09
2029-01-09
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
2022-01-11
2027-01-12
Windows Server 2012 Datacenter
2018-10-09
2023-10-10
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
2018-10-19
2023-10-10
Windows Server 2008
Ended
Ended
Windows Server 2003
Ended
Ended