Android End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all Android versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
| Version | Latest Release | Release Date | EOL Date | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | — | Sep 23, 2008 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 1.1 | — | Feb 9, 2009 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 1.5 | — | Apr 27, 2009 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 1.6 | — | Sep 15, 2009 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 2.0 | — | Oct 26, 2009 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 2.1 | — | Jan 11, 2010 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 2.2 | — | May 20, 2010 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 2.3 | — | Dec 6, 2010 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 3.0 | — | Feb 22, 2011 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 3.1 | — | May 10, 2011 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 3.2 | — | Jul 15, 2011 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 4.0 | — | Oct 18, 2011 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 4.1 | — | Jul 9, 2012 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 4.2 | — | Nov 13, 2012 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 4.3 | — | Jul 24, 2013 | No EOL date | Supported | Active |
| 4.4 | — | Oct 31, 2013 | Oct 1, 2017 | 3187 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.4w | — | Mar 31, 2014 | Oct 1, 2017 | 3187 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.0 | — | Nov 12, 2014 | Mar 1, 2018 | 3036 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.1 | — | Mar 1, 2015 | Mar 1, 2018 | 3036 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.0 | — | Oct 5, 2015 | Aug 1, 2018 | 2883 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7.0 | — | Aug 22, 2016 | Oct 1, 2019 | 2457 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7.1 | — | Dec 1, 2016 | Oct 1, 2019 | 2457 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8.0 | — | Aug 21, 2017 | Jan 1, 2021 | 1999 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8.1 | — | Dec 5, 2017 | Jan 10, 2021 | 1990 days past EOL | EOL |
| 9 | — | Aug 6, 2018 | Jan 1, 2022 | 1634 days past EOL | EOL |
| 10 | — | Sep 3, 2019 | Mar 6, 2023 | 1205 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11 | — | Sep 8, 2020 | Feb 5, 2024 | 869 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12 | — | Oct 4, 2021 | Mar 3, 2025 | 477 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.1 | — | Mar 7, 2022 | Mar 3, 2025 | 477 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13 | — | Aug 15, 2022 | Mar 2, 2026 | 113 days past EOL | EOL |
| 14 | — | Oct 4, 2023 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 15 | — | Sep 3, 2024 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 16 | — | Jun 10, 2025 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 17 | — | Jun 16, 2026 | TBD | Supported | Active |
What does Android end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of Android reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches. Vulnerabilities discovered after this date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database, exploit code appears on GitHub, and your systems remain permanently exposed.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software. With a zero-day, nobody knows about the vulnerability. With EOL software, the vulnerability is public — listed, rated, and often weaponized — but no patch will ever exist. This is the most dangerous gap in enterprise security posture.
Organizations running EOL Android should treat it as a vulnerability class in their risk register, apply compensating controls (network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, access restriction), and prioritize migration to a supported version.
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