visual cobol end of life dates — full support timeline
9 of 12 tracked visual cobol 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | 2024-07-19 | 2028-07-31 | — | supported |
| 9.0 | 2023-06-29 | 2027-07-31 | — | supported |
| 8.0 | 2022-07-13 | 2026-07-31 | — | ends soon |
| 7.0 | 2021-09-14 | 2025-09-30 | — | ended |
| 6.0 | 2020-06-18 | 2024-06-30 | — | ended |
| 5.0 | 2019-06-21 | 2023-06-30 | — | ended |
| 4.0 | 2018-06-14 | 2022-06-30 | — | ended |
| 3.0 | 2017-07-07 | 2021-07-31 | — | ended |
| 2.3 | 2016-10-03 | 2019-09-30 | — | ended |
| 2.2 | 2014-11-19 | 2018-07-31 | — | ended |
| 2.1 | 2013-04-05 | 2017-05-31 | — | ended |
| 2.0 | 2012-04-27 | 2014-12-31 | — | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported visual cobol 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/visual-cobol, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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