beats end of life dates — full support timeline
4 of 11 tracked beats 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.4 | 2026-04-30 | not announced | 9.4.4 | supported |
| 9.3 | 2026-02-03 | not announced | 9.3.8 | supported |
| 9.2 | 2025-10-20 | not announced | 9.2.8 | supported |
| 9.1 | 2025-07-23 | not announced | 9.1.10 | supported |
| 8.19 | 2025-07-23 | 2027-07-15 | 8.19.19 | supported |
| 8.18 | 2025-04-09 | 2025-10-20 | 8.18.8 | ended |
| 9.0 | 2025-04-08 | not announced | 9.0.8 | supported |
| 8.17 | 2024-12-11 | not announced | 8.17.10 | supported |
| 8.16 | 2024-11-07 | 2025-04-18 | 8.16.6 | ended |
| 7 | 2019-04-05 | 2026-01-15 | 7.17.29 | ended |
| 6 | 2017-11-08 | 2022-02-10 | 6.8.23 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported beats 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/beats, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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