puppet end of life dates — full support timeline
5 of 6 tracked puppet 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2023-04-21 | not announced | 8.18.0 | supported |
| 7 | 2020-11-13 | 2025-04-30 | 7.35.0 | ended |
| 6 | 2018-09-18 | 2023-02-01 | 6.29.0 | ended |
| 5 | 2017-06-27 | 2021-01-01 | 5.5.22 | ended |
| 4 | 2015-04-08 | 2018-10-01 | 4.10.13 | ended |
| 3 | 2012-09-28 | 2017-01-01 | 3.8.7 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported puppet 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/puppet, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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