tails end of life dates — full support timeline
6 of 7 tracked tails 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 | 2025-09-18 | not announced | 7.10 | supported |
| 6 | 2024-02-27 | 2025-09-18 | 6.19 | ended |
| 5 | 2022-05-03 | 2024-02-27 | 5.22 | ended |
| 4 | 2019-10-22 | 2022-05-02 | 4.29 | ended |
| 3 | 2017-06-13 | 2019-10-21 | 3.16 | ended |
| 2 | 2016-01-27 | 2017-07-10 | 2.12 | ended |
| 1 | 2014-04-29 | 2016-01-25 | 1.8.2 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported tails 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/tails, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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