raspberry pi end of life dates — full support timeline
3 of 24 tracked raspberry pi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5-500+ | 2025-09-25 | 2035-01-01 | — | supported |
| 5-500 | 2024-12-09 | 2034-01-01 | — | supported |
| cm5 | 2024-11-27 | 2036-01-01 | — | supported |
| pico2 | 2024-08-08 | 2040-01-01 | — | supported |
| 5 | 2023-10-23 | 2036-01-01 | — | supported |
| cm4s | 2022-04-04 | 2034-01-01 | — | supported |
| zero-2-w | 2021-10-28 | 2030-01-01 | — | supported |
| pico | 2021-01-21 | 2036-01-01 | — | supported |
| 4-400 | 2020-11-02 | 2028-01-01 | — | supported |
| cm4 | 2020-10-19 | 2034-01-01 | — | supported |
| 4-b | 2019-06-24 | 2034-01-01 | — | supported |
| cm3+ | 2019-01-28 | 2028-01-01 | — | supported |
| 3-a+ | 2018-11-15 | 2030-01-01 | — | supported |
| 3-b+ | 2018-03-14 | 2030-01-01 | — | supported |
| zero-w | 2017-02-28 | 2030-01-01 | — | supported |
| cm3 | 2017-01-16 | 2028-01-01 | — | supported |
| 3-b | 2016-02-29 | 2028-01-01 | — | supported |
| zero | 2015-11-26 | 2030-01-01 | — | supported |
| 2-b | 2015-02-02 | not announced | — | supported |
| 1-a+ | 2014-11-10 | 2030-01-01 | — | supported |
| 1-b+ | 2014-07-14 | 2030-01-01 | — | supported |
| cm1 | 2014-04-07 | 2026-01-01 | — | ended |
| 1-a | 2013-02-04 | 2014-11-10 | — | ended |
| 1-b | 2012-03-01 | 2014-07-14 | — | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported raspberry pi 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/raspberry-pi, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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