BellSoft Liberica End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all BellSoft Liberica versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
| Version | Latest Release | Release Date | EOL Date | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 LTS | unknown | Dec 12, 2006 | Dec 31, 2018 | 2749 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7 LTS | unknown | Jul 11, 2011 | Jul 31, 2022 | 1441 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8 LTS | 8u492+9 | Mar 18, 2014 | Nov 30, 2026 | 142 days remaining | Warning |
| 10 | 10.0.2 | Mar 21, 2018 | Sep 25, 2018 | 2846 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11 LTS | 11.0.31+11 | Oct 8, 2018 | Oct 31, 2024 | 618 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12 | 12.0.2 | Mar 22, 2019 | Sep 17, 2019 | 2489 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13 | 13.0.2+9 | Sep 26, 2019 | Mar 17, 2020 | 2307 days past EOL | EOL |
| 14 | 14.0.2+13 | Mar 19, 2020 | Sep 16, 2020 | 2124 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15 | 15.0.2+10 | Sep 17, 2020 | Mar 16, 2021 | 1943 days past EOL | EOL |
| 16 | 16.0.2+7 | Mar 19, 2021 | Sep 14, 2021 | 1761 days past EOL | EOL |
| 17 LTS | 17.0.19+12 | Sep 17, 2021 | Oct 31, 2027 | 477 days remaining | Active |
| 18 | 18.0.2.1+1 | Mar 23, 2022 | Sep 20, 2022 | 1390 days past EOL | EOL |
| 19 | 19.0.2+9 | Sep 21, 2022 | Mar 21, 2023 | 1208 days past EOL | EOL |
| 20 | 20.0.2+10 | Mar 22, 2023 | Sep 19, 2023 | 1026 days past EOL | EOL |
| 21 LTS | 21.0.11+12 | Sep 20, 2023 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 22 | 22.0.2+11 | Mar 20, 2024 | Sep 17, 2024 | 662 days past EOL | EOL |
| 23 | 23.0.2+9 | Sep 18, 2024 | Mar 18, 2025 | 480 days past EOL | EOL |
| 24 | 24.0.2+12 | Mar 19, 2025 | Sep 16, 2025 | 298 days past EOL | EOL |
| 25 LTS | 25.0.3+11 | Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 30, 2031 | 1907 days remaining | Active |
| 26 | 26.0.1+10 | Mar 18, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | 69 days remaining | Warning |
What does BellSoft Liberica end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of BellSoft Liberica 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 BellSoft Liberica 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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If you cannot migrate immediately, extended support vendors provide continued security patches for EOL BellSoft Liberica versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.
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