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 | 3207 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.4w | — | Mar 31, 2014 | Oct 1, 2017 | 3207 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.0 | — | Nov 12, 2014 | Mar 1, 2018 | 3056 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.1 | — | Mar 1, 2015 | Mar 1, 2018 | 3056 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.0 | — | Oct 5, 2015 | Aug 1, 2018 | 2903 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7.0 | — | Aug 22, 2016 | Oct 1, 2019 | 2477 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7.1 | — | Dec 1, 2016 | Oct 1, 2019 | 2477 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8.0 | — | Aug 21, 2017 | Jan 1, 2021 | 2019 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8.1 | — | Dec 5, 2017 | Jan 10, 2021 | 2010 days past EOL | EOL |
| 9 | — | Aug 6, 2018 | Jan 1, 2022 | 1654 days past EOL | EOL |
| 10 | — | Sep 3, 2019 | Mar 6, 2023 | 1225 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11 | — | Sep 8, 2020 | Feb 5, 2024 | 889 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12 | — | Oct 4, 2021 | Mar 3, 2025 | 497 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.1 | — | Mar 7, 2022 | Mar 3, 2025 | 497 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13 | — | Aug 15, 2022 | Mar 2, 2026 | 133 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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