cisco ios xe end of life dates — full support timeline
16 of 19 tracked cisco ios xe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.18 LTS | 2025-08-08 | 2029-08-08 | — | supported |
| 17.17 | 2025-03-31 | 2026-03-31 | — | ended |
| 17.16 | 2024-12-11 | 2025-12-11 | — | ended |
| 17.15 LTS | 2024-08-09 | 2028-08-09 | — | supported |
| 17.14 | 2024-04-13 | 2025-04-13 | — | ended |
| 17.13 | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 | — | ended |
| 17.12 LTS | 2023-07-28 | 2027-07-28 | — | supported |
| 17.11 | 2023-03-28 | 2024-03-28 | — | ended |
| 17.10 | 2022-11-30 | 2023-11-30 | — | ended |
| 17.9 LTS | 2022-07-29 | 2026-07-29 | — | ended |
| 17.8 | 2022-04-11 | 2023-04-11 | — | ended |
| 17.7 | 2021-11-30 | 2022-11-30 | — | ended |
| 17.6 LTS | 2021-07-30 | 2024-07-30 | — | ended |
| 17.5 | 2021-03-31 | 2022-03-31 | — | ended |
| 17.4 | 2020-11-30 | 2021-11-30 | — | ended |
| 17.3 LTS | 2020-07-31 | 2024-07-31 | — | ended |
| 17.2 | 2020-03-30 | 2021-03-30 | — | ended |
| 17.1 | 2019-11-21 | 2020-11-21 | — | ended |
| 16.12 LTS | 2019-07-31 | 2023-07-31 | — | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported cisco ios xe 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/cisco-ios-xe, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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