routeros end of life dates — full support timeline
88 of 91 tracked routeros 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.23 | 2026-05-26 | not announced | 7.23.2 | supported |
| 7.22 | 2026-03-10 | 2026-05-26 | 7.22.3 | ended |
| 7.21 LTS | 2026-01-12 | not announced | 7.21.5 | supported |
| 7.20 LTS | 2025-09-30 | 2026-01-12 | 7.20.8 | ended |
| 7.19 | 2025-05-22 | 2025-09-30 | 7.19.6 | ended |
| 7.18 | 2025-02-24 | 2025-05-22 | 7.18.2 | ended |
| 7.17 | 2025-01-16 | 2025-02-24 | 7.17.2 | ended |
| 7.16 | 2024-09-24 | 2025-01-16 | 7.16.2 | ended |
| 7.15 | 2024-05-30 | 2024-09-24 | 7.15.3 | ended |
| 7.14 | 2024-03-25 | 2024-05-30 | 7.14.3 | ended |
| 7.13 | 2023-12-14 | 2024-03-25 | 7.13.5 | ended |
| 7.12 | 2023-11-09 | 2023-12-14 | 7.12.2 | ended |
| 7.11 | 2023-08-15 | 2023-11-09 | 7.11.3 | ended |
| 7.10 | 2023-06-15 | 2023-08-15 | 7.10.2 | ended |
| 7.9 | 2023-05-02 | 2023-06-15 | 7.9.2 | ended |
| 7.8 | 2023-02-24 | 2023-05-02 | 7.8 | ended |
| 7.7 | 2023-01-12 | 2023-02-24 | 7.7 | ended |
| 7.6 | 2022-10-17 | 2023-01-12 | 7.6 | ended |
| 7.5 | 2022-08-30 | 2022-10-17 | 7.5 | ended |
| 7.4 | 2022-07-19 | 2022-08-30 | 7.4.1 | ended |
| 7.3 | 2022-06-06 | 2022-07-19 | 7.3.1 | ended |
| 7.2 | 2022-03-31 | 2022-06-06 | 7.2.3 | ended |
| 7.1 | 2021-12-01 | 2022-03-31 | 7.1.5 | ended |
| 6.49 LTS | 2021-10-06 | not announced | 6.49.20 | supported |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported routeros 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/routeros, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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