rancher end of life dates — full support timeline
12 of 16 tracked rancher 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.14 | 2026-04-30 | 2027-10-10 | 2.14.4 | supported |
| 2.13 | 2025-12-17 | 2027-06-17 | 2.13.8 | supported |
| 2.12 | 2025-08-29 | 2027-02-28 | 2.12.12 | supported |
| 2.11 | 2025-04-24 | 2026-10-24 | 2.11.16 | ends soon |
| 2.10 | 2024-12-19 | 2026-06-19 | 2.10.12 | ended |
| 2.9 | 2024-08-26 | 2026-02-26 | 2.9.12 | ended |
| 2.8 | 2023-12-05 | 2025-07-22 | 2.8.15 | ended |
| 2.7 | 2022-11-16 | 2024-11-18 | 2.7.18 | ended |
| 2.6 | 2021-08-30 | 2024-04-30 | 2.6.14 | ended |
| 2.5 | 2020-10-05 | 2023-01-31 | 2.5.17 | ended |
| 2.4 | 2020-03-30 | 2022-03-31 | 2.4.18 | ended |
| 2.3 | 2019-10-07 | 2021-04-07 | 2.3.11 | ended |
| 2.2 | 2019-03-25 | 2020-10-15 | 2.2.13 | ended |
| 2.1 | 2018-10-05 | 2020-04-19 | 2.1.14 | ended |
| 2.0 | 2018-04-30 | 2019-11-01 | 2.0.16 | ended |
| 1.6 | 2017-05-04 | 2020-06-30 | 1.6.30 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported rancher 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/rancher, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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