big ip end of life dates — full support timeline
12 of 16 tracked big ip 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21.1 LTS | 2026-05-05 | 2029-05-05 | 21.1.0 | supported |
| 21.0 | 2025-11-06 | 2026-08-06 | 21.0.0 | ends soon |
| 17.5 LTS | 2025-02-27 | 2029-01-01 | 17.5.1 | supported |
| 17.1 LTS | 2023-03-14 | 2027-03-31 | 17.1.3 | supported |
| 17.0 | 2022-04-26 | 2023-07-31 | 17.0.0 | ended |
| 16.1 LTS | 2021-07-07 | 2025-07-31 | 16.1.6 | ended |
| 16.0 | 2020-07-16 | 2021-10-07 | 16.0.1.1 | ended |
| 15.1 LTS | 2019-12-11 | 2024-12-31 | 15.1.10 | ended |
| 15.0 | 2019-05-23 | 2020-08-23 | 15.0.1 | ended |
| 14.1 | 2018-12-11 | 2023-12-31 | 14.1.5 | ended |
| 14.0 | 2018-08-09 | 2019-11-09 | 14.0.1 | ended |
| 13.1 | 2017-12-19 | 2023-12-31 | 13.1.5 | ended |
| 13.0 | 2017-02-22 | 2019-05-22 | 13.0.1 | ended |
| 12.1 | 2016-05-18 | 2022-05-18 | 12.1.6 | ended |
| 12.0 | 2015-09-02 | 2017-12-02 | 12.0.0 | ended |
| 11.6 | 2014-08-25 | 2022-05-10 | 11.6.5 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported big ip 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/big-ip, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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