We love all our products, but sometimes we must say goodbye to a release so that we can continue moving forward on future development and innovation. Elastic's Support Services Policy defines how long a given release is maintained and supported.
Our version code is made of three numbers separated by dots: the leftmost number is the major release, the middle number is the minor release, and the rightmost number is the maintenance release (e.g., 8.3.2 means major release 8, minor release 3 and maintenance release 2).
Elastic will provide maintenance (e.g., provide bug fixes or address security vulnerabilities) for each major release during the Maintenance Term (as defined in the Elastic Support Services Policy) either through either a new minor release or a new maintenance release to the latest minor version. For example, if major release series 8.x is within the Maintenance Term, and 8.3 is the current minor version, fixes will be made either through the next minor version (e.g., 8.4) or a maintenance release in 8.3 (e.g., 8.3.2).
Please see the Elastic Support Services Policy and the Support Matrix for more information.
The tables below reflect the end of the Maintenance Term for our current versions of Software. The end of the Support Term is six months following the end of the Maintenance Term. Please scroll to the next section for further information on prior versions of Software.
| Product | Release Series | End of Maintenance Term |
|---|---|---|
| Elasticsearch | ||
| Elasticsearch | 8.x | The later of 2024-08-10 or 6 months after the release date of 9.0 (TBD) |
| Kibana | ||
| Kibana | 8.x | The later of 2024-08-10 or 6 months after the release date of 9.0 (TBD) |
| Logstash | ||
| Logstash | 8.x | The later of 2024-08-10 or 6 months after the release date of 9.0 (TBD) |
| Beats | ||
| Beats | 8.x | The later of 2024-08-10 or 6 months after the release date of 9.0 (TBD) |
| Elastic Cloud Enterprise1 | ||
| Elastic Cloud Enterprise | 3.x | The later of 2024-08-10 or 6 months after the release date of 4.0 (TBD) |
| Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes1 | ||
| Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes | 2.x | The later of 2024-08-10 or 6 months after the release date of 3.0 (TBD) |
| Elasticsearch-Hadoop | ||
| Elasticsearch-Hadoop | 8.x | The later of 2024-08-10 or 6 months after the release date of 9.0 (TBD) |
| APM server | ||
| APM server | 8.x | The later of 2024-08-10 or 6 months after the release date of 9.0 (TBD) |
| APM Agents | ||
| APM PHP Agent | 1.x | The later of 2023-09-23 or 6 months after the release date of 2.0 (TBD) |
| APM Go Agent | 2.x | The later of 2024-09-17 or 6 months after the release of 3.0 (TBD) |
| APM Java Agent | 1.x | 6 months after the release date of 2.0 (TBD) |
| APM .NET Agent | 1.x | 6 months after the release date of 2.0 (TBD) |
| APM Node.js Agent | 3.x | 6 months after the release date of 4.0 (TBD) |
| APM Python Agent | 6.x | The later of 2023-08-01 or 6 months after the release of 7.0 (TBD) |
| APM Ruby Agent | 4.x | The later of 2023-10-27 or 6 months after the release of 5.0 (TBD) |
| APM JavaScript RUM Agent | 5.x | 6 months after the release of 6.0 (TBD) |
| Elastic APM AWS Lambda Extension | ||
| Elastic APM AWS Lambda Extension | 1.x | The later of 2024-10-26 or 6 months after the release date of 2.0 (TBD) |
| Elastic Enterprise Search | ||
| Elastic Enterprise Search | 8.x | The later of 2024-08-10 or 6 months after the release date of 9.0 (TBD) |
1 Elasticsearch clusters and Kibana instances deployed on this product follow the Elasticsearch and Kibana Maintenance Terms and Support Terms previously described even when deployed in this product.
| Elastic Cloud Enterprise | Supported Until | Maintained Until |
|---|---|---|
| 2.13.x | The later of 2023-08-01 or the release date of 4.0.0 | The later of 2023-08-01 or the release date of 4.0.0 |
Note: Elasticsearch clusters and Kibana instances deployed on Elastic Cloud Enterprise follow the Elasticsearch and Kibana maintenance and support dates previously described even when deployed in Elastic Cloud Enterprise.
| Swiftype.com (SaaS) | Supported Until |
|---|---|
| Swiftype.com App Search | 2023-04-30 |
| Swiftype.com Site Search | N/A |
Elastic's Support Services Policy for Elastic Endgame is specified in certain Agreements. In accordance with the Support Services Policy for Elastic Endgame, Elastic only supports and maintains the current release and previous release. Versions of Elastic Endgame that are two or more releases behind the current version are no longer maintained, meaning Elastic will no longer provide bug fixes, maintenance releases, workarounds, or patches for those versions.
| Endgame Server | Date released | Supported Until | Maintained Until |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.27 | June 2022 | February 2023 | 3.29 |
| 3.28 | September 2022 | 3.30 release | 3.30 release |
| 3.29 | February 2023 | 3.31 release | 3.31 release |
| Endgame Sensor | Date released | Supported Until | Maintained Until |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.61 | January 2022 | Sensor 3.63 release | Sensor 3.63 release |
| 3.62 | June 2022 | Sensor 3.64 release | Sensor 3.64 release |
| 3.63 | February 2023 | Sensor 3.65 release | Sensor 3.65 release |