windows server core end of life dates — full support timeline
12 of 16 tracked windows server core 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 LTS | 2024-11-01 | 2034-10-10 | 10.0.26100 | supported |
| 2022 LTS | 2021-08-18 | 2031-10-14 | 10.0.20348 | supported |
| 20h2 | 2020-10-20 | 2022-08-09 | 10.0.19042 | ended |
| 2004 | 2020-05-27 | 2021-12-14 | 10.0.19041 | ended |
| 1909 | 2019-11-12 | 2021-05-11 | 10.0.18363 | ended |
| 1903 | 2019-05-21 | 2020-12-08 | 10.0.18362 | ended |
| 1809 | 2018-11-13 | 2020-11-10 | 10.0.17763 | ended |
| 2019 LTS | 2018-11-13 | 2029-01-09 | 10.0.17763 | supported |
| 1803 | 2018-04-30 | 2019-11-12 | 10.0.17134 | ended |
| 1709 | 2017-10-17 | 2019-04-09 | 10.0.16299 | ended |
| 1607 | 2016-10-15 | 2022-01-11 | 10.0.14393 | ended |
| 2016 LTS | 2016-10-15 | 2027-01-12 | 10.0.14393 | ends soon |
| 2012-r2 LTS | 2013-11-25 | 2023-10-10 | 6.3.9600 | ended |
| 2012 LTS | 2012-10-30 | 2023-10-10 | 6.2.9200 | ended |
| 2008-r2-sp1 LTS | 2011-02-22 | 2020-01-14 | 6.1.7601 | ended |
| 2008-sp2 LTS | 2009-04-29 | 2020-01-14 | 6.0.6003 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported windows server core 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/windows-server-core, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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