salt end of life dates — full support timeline
13 of 16 tracked salt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3008 LTS | 2026-05-27 | 2028-06-30 | 3008.2 | supported |
| 3007 | 2024-03-06 | 2026-07-31 | 3007.14 | ends soon |
| 3006 LTS | 2023-04-18 | 2027-06-30 | 3006.27 | supported |
| 3005 | 2022-08-22 | 2024-02-25 | 3005.5 | ended |
| 3004 | 2021-10-12 | 2023-04-18 | 3004.2 | ended |
| 3003 | 2021-03-23 | 2022-09-30 | 3003.5 | ended |
| 3002 | 2020-10-20 | 2022-04-21 | 3002.9 | ended |
| 3001 | 2020-06-09 | 2021-12-31 | 3001.8 | ended |
| 3000 | 2020-02-01 | 2021-08-31 | 3000.9 | ended |
| 2019.2 | 2019-01-07 | 2020-09-30 | 2019.2.8 | ended |
| 2018.3 | 2018-02-22 | 2019-10-31 | 2018.3.5 | ended |
| 2017.7 | 2017-06-14 | 2019-08-30 | 2017.7.8 | ended |
| 2016.3 | 2016-02-02 | 2017-11-30 | 2016.3.8 | ended |
| 2015.8 | 2015-07-02 | 2017-03-31 | 2015.8.13 | ended |
| 2015.5 | 2015-05-06 | 2016-11-30 | 2015.5.11 | ended |
| 2014.7 | 2014-07-15 | 2016-05-31 | 2014.7.9 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported salt 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/salt, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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