Red Hat JBoss Web Server 6: Full Support Ends November 30, 2026

By Scott Bissett · Published: September 24, 2026 · Dates on this page are served from data and checked against Red Hat's Product Life Cycle data daily

Full Support for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 6 ends on November 30, 2026. That is the date in Red Hat's own Product Life Cycle data, three years after the 6.0 general availability date of October 31, 2023. The product does not go away on December 1: it enters Maintenance Support, which Red Hat lists until November 30, 2028, and customers who buy Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) 1 can stay covered until November 30, 2031. What changes on the day is the scope of what Red Hat promises to fix.

The phase change in one sentence. Under Full Support, Red Hat applies all available and qualified patches through periodic product updates, including qualified security patches rated Critical, Important, or Moderate with a CVSS score of 7 or higher. Under Maintenance Support, Red Hat's policy states that qualified security patches of Critical or Important impact, as well as select mission-critical bug-fix patches, will be released. A Moderate-severity Tomcat fix that would have shipped in JWS 6 this year is not promised next year.

Quick answer: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 7 is supported until November 30, 2031, its end-of-support date. Active support for Red Hat JBoss Web Server 7 ends on November 30, 2029; security fixes continue until that end-of-life date. The next Red Hat JBoss Web Server version to reach end of life is 6, on November 30, 2028. 4 of 6 tracked Red Hat JBoss Web Server versions are past end of life; the most recent to reach it, 5, did so on July 31, 2025. Every Red Hat JBoss Web Server version's release and end-of-support date is on the Red Hat JBoss Web Server lifecycle page.

Red Hat's dates for JBoss Web Server 7, 6 and 5

Version	General availability	Full Support ends	Maintenance Support ends	ELS 1 ends	Tomcat inside
JWS 7	2026-07-17	2029-11-30	2031-11-30	2034-11-30	Apache Tomcat 11.0 (7.0 is based on Apache Tomcat 11.0.21)
JWS 6	2023-10-31	2026-11-30	2028-11-30	2031-11-30	Apache Tomcat 10.1
JWS 5	2018-07-12	2024-07-31	2025-07-31	2027-07-31 (ELS 2 listed to 2030-12-31)	Apache Tomcat 9

Every date is Red Hat's, read from the Product Life Cycle Data API behind access.redhat.com/product-life-cycles and re-read on every build. Red Hat lists no ELS 2 phase for JWS 6 or JWS 7; for JWS 5 it lists ELS 2 to 2030-12-31, and for JWS 3 the change log records an extension to December 30, 2028. The Tomcat column is from Red Hat's release notes for each stream.

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What each Red Hat phase covers

Full Support. Starts at general availability. Red Hat applies all available and qualified patches via periodic product updates and cumulative patches, or as required for qualified security patches rated as Critical, Important, or Moderate with a CVSS score of 7 or higher. This is the phase JWS 6 leaves on November 30, 2026.

Maintenance Support. Red Hat's policy: during the maintenance phase, qualified security patches of Critical or Important impact, as well as select mission-critical bug-fix patches, will be released. Production and development support continue under the published scope of coverage. JWS 6 stays here until November 30, 2028, which is the date our product page and API serve as the version's end of life.

Extended Life Cycle Support. An optional add-on subscription. Red Hat's policy says it may be purchased to extend the life cycle by three (3) additional years, under a separate scope of coverage and SLA. Red Hat added an ELS-1 phase to JBoss Web Server in March 2023, and for JWS 6 that phase runs to November 30, 2031.

The five-year rule behind the dates. Red Hat states that a Standard Product Life Cycle of five years applies to most Red Hat Application Services products, split into Full Support and Maintenance Support. JBoss Web Server follows it: JWS 6 went GA on October 31, 2023, Full Support ends at the three-year mark and Maintenance Support at the five-year mark, with ELS on top. JWS 7 runs on the same shape from its GA date of July 17, 2026.

The Tomcat line inside each release

JBoss Web Server is Red Hat's supported build of Apache Tomcat, so the Tomcat major inside each stream sets what an upgrade means. Red Hat's release notes state that JBoss Web Server 6 contains Apache Tomcat 10.1, that the JBoss Web Server 7.0 release is based on Apache Tomcat 11.0.21, and that JBoss Web Server 5 contains Apache Tomcat 9. Two consequences:

JWS 6 to JWS 7 is a Tomcat 10.1 to Tomcat 11 move. Red Hat's release notes state that this version of Tomcat implements the specifications the Jakarta EE 11 platform requires, Jakarta Servlet 6.1 among them, so the same application testing you would do for an upstream 10.1 to 11 upgrade applies. Red Hat notes that Spring Boot 4 applications can optionally be deployed to JWS 7.0 hosts because it is based on Tomcat 11, and in the same breath that Red Hat does not provide support for using Spring Boot applications with JBoss Web Server.
JWS 5 users are on Apache Tomcat 9, and the Apache Tomcat project has announced its own end date for the 9.0 line: March 31, 2027. Red Hat's JWS 5 ELS phases continue past that, which is exactly what ELS is for: Red Hat, not the Apache project, carries the fixes. See the Tomcat end-of-life guide for the upstream side.

What to do before November 30

Decide whether Maintenance Support is enough. If your exposure model needs Moderate-severity fixes shipped, not just Critical and Important, plan the JWS 7 move before the phase change rather than after it.
Test on JWS 7 now. 7.0 has been generally available since July 17, 2026, so a Tomcat 11 compatibility pass can start today, and its Full Support runs to November 30, 2029.
Still on JWS 5: Maintenance Support ended July 31, 2025. Without an ELS subscription you are past every Red Hat phase; with one, check which ELS phase your entitlement covers.
Inventory: the JBoss Web Server product page carries every version with its live score, and curl https://api.endoflife.ai/v1/score/redhat-jboss-web-server/6 returns the dates with their source. The RHEL and OpenShift lifecycle guide covers the platform underneath.

Frequently asked questions

When does Red Hat JBoss Web Server 6 support end?

Full Support for JBoss Web Server 6 ends on November 30, 2026, according to Red Hat's Product Life Cycle data. It then enters Maintenance Support until November 30, 2028, and customers with an Extended Life Cycle Support subscription can stay covered until November 30, 2031.

What changes when JBoss Web Server 6 moves from Full Support to Maintenance Support?

Red Hat's policy states that during the maintenance phase, qualified security patches of Critical or Important impact, as well as select mission-critical bug-fix patches, will be released. In Full Support, all available and qualified patches are applied through periodic updates, including security patches rated Moderate with a CVSS score of 7 or higher. So from December 1, 2026, a Moderate-severity fix that would have shipped under Full Support is no longer promised.

Is JBoss Web Server 7 available, and which Tomcat does it ship?

Yes. JBoss Web Server 7.0 reached general availability on July 17, 2026, and Red Hat's release notes state that the 7.0 release is based on Apache Tomcat 11.0.21. Red Hat lists its Full Support until November 30, 2029 and Maintenance Support until November 30, 2031.

Sources

Red Hat, Product Life Cycle Data API, product Red Hat JBoss Web Server (access.redhat.com/product-life-cycles): general availability, Full support, Maintenance support and ELS dates per version.
Red Hat, "Red Hat Application Services Product Update and Support Policy" (access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes): life cycle phases, the five-year Standard Product Life Cycle, ELS terms, change log.
Red Hat, JBoss Web Server 7.0, 6.1 and 5.8 Release Notes (docs.redhat.com): the Apache Tomcat version inside each stream.

Red Hat JBoss Web Server product page — every version with its live score
Red Hat JBoss EAP — the application platform on the same Red Hat phase model
Apache Tomcat — the upstream lines JWS builds on
Extended support vendors — who supports what after the vendor stops
How we verify our dates