ansible core end of life dates — full support timeline
10 of 13 tracked ansible core releases have already reached end of life. The dates below are published support dates, not estimates.
Version support timeline
| Release | Released | End of life | Latest | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.21 | 2026-05-31 | 2027-11-30 | 2.21.2 | supported |
| 2.20 | 2025-11-03 | 2027-05-31 | 2.20.7 | supported |
| 2.19 | 2025-07-21 | 2026-11-30 | 2.19.11 | ends soon |
| 2.18 | 2024-11-04 | 2026-05-31 | 2.18.18 | ended |
| 2.17 | 2024-05-20 | 2025-11-30 | 2.17.14 | ended |
| 2.16 | 2023-11-06 | 2025-07-31 | 2.16.19 | ended |
| 2.15 | 2023-05-22 | 2024-11-30 | 2.15.13 | ended |
| 2.14 | 2022-11-07 | 2024-05-20 | 2.14.18 | ended |
| 2.13 | 2022-05-23 | 2023-11-06 | 2.13.13 | ended |
| 2.12 | 2021-11-08 | 2023-05-22 | 2.12.10 | ended |
| 2.11 | 2021-04-26 | 2022-11-07 | 2.11.12 | ended |
| 2.10 | 2020-08-13 | 2022-05-23 | 2.10.17 | ended |
| 2.9 | 2019-10-31 | 2022-05-23 | 2.9.27 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported ansible core release. After end of life a version stops receiving security patches, which typically becomes an audit or compliance finding before it becomes an outage. Upgrading to a supported release is the migration path; the table above shows which releases still qualify.
Source
These dates are maintained by endoflife.date/ansible-core, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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