Claude (Anthropic) Claude Sonnet 5.5 End of Life Date
Claude (Anthropic) Claude Sonnet 5.5 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data reconciled from official vendor documentation and endoflife.date at every build; the source of each date is on the product page.
Claude (Anthropic) claude-sonnet-5-5 was released on September 28, 2026 and support is scheduled to end on September 28, 2027 — a planned supported lifespan of 1 year, shorter than the 1 year and 7 months median for Claude (Anthropic) releases.
| Version | Latest | EOL Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude 1.0 | — | Nov 6, 2024 | EOL |
| Claude Instant 1.0 | — | Nov 6, 2024 | EOL |
| Claude 1.1 | — | Nov 6, 2024 | EOL |
| Claude 1.2 | — | Nov 6, 2024 | EOL |
| Claude Instant 1.1 | — | Nov 6, 2024 | EOL |
| Claude 1.3 | — | Nov 6, 2024 | EOL |
| Claude 2.0 | — | Jul 21, 2025 | EOL |
| Claude Instant 1.2 | — | Nov 6, 2024 | EOL |
What does Claude (Anthropic) Claude Sonnet 5.5 end of life mean?
When Claude (Anthropic) Claude Sonnet 5.5 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: A CVE-based scan does not show the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Some scanners flag unsupported versions of common products, but coverage varies, and none of them give you the date in advance. Running Claude (Anthropic) Claude Sonnet 5.5 past its EOL date creates a growing attack surface that a clean scan result does not rule out.
Migrate to Claude (Anthropic) Claude Sonnet 5.5 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.