openzfs end of life dates — full support timeline
4 of 6 tracked openzfs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.4 | 2025-12-18 | not announced | 2.4.3 | supported |
| 2.3 | 2024-10-17 | not announced | 2.3.8 | supported |
| 2.2 | 2023-07-27 | 2025-12-18 | 2.2.10 | ended |
| 2.1 | 2021-04-19 | 2025-01-13 | 2.1.16 | ended |
| 2.0 | 2020-11-30 | 2021-12-23 | 2.0.7 | ended |
| 0.8 | 2019-05-21 | 2020-12-14 | 0.8.6 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported openzfs 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/openzfs, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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