netbackup appliance os end of life dates — full support timeline
9 of 11 tracked netbackup appliance os 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 2025-07-31 | not announced | 5.5.0.1 MR1 | supported |
| 5.3 | 2023-11-27 | not announced | 5.3.0.1 MR4 | supported |
| 5.1 | 2023-02-08 | 2025-09-08 | 5.1.1 MR5 | ended |
| 5.0 | 2022-04-25 | 2025-03-28 | 5.0.0.1 MR5 | ended |
| 4.1 | 2021-07-19 | 2024-06-07 | 4.1.0.1 MR5 | ended |
| 4.0 | 2021-03-01 | 2024-01-01 | 4.0.0.1 MR4 | ended |
| 3.3 | 2020-10-05 | 2024-07-29 | 3.3.0.2 MR2 | ended |
| 3.2 | 2019-11-04 | 2023-06-28 | 3.2 | ended |
| 3.1 | 2017-09-26 | 2022-06-28 | 3.1.2 | ended |
| 3.0 | 2016-12-04 | 2020-10-01 | 3.0 | ended |
| 2.7 | 2015-12-06 | 2020-10-01 | 2.7.3 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported netbackup appliance os 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/netbackup-appliance-os, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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