F5 BIG-IP, VIPRION and VELOS (hardware) End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline

F5 BIG-IP, VIPRION and VELOS (hardware) lifecycle status — the real story

F5 hardware covers the BIG-IP appliances (the classic models, the iSeries and the rSeries F5OS appliances), the VIPRION chassis and blades, the VELOS chassis and blades, and the retired BIG-IQ, ARX, FirePass, WANJet, Enterprise Manager and SSE appliances. Cycles on this page are hardware platforms as F5 names them, with F5's platform ID in brackets (i5800 (C119)). Every date comes from F5's own article K4309, 'F5 hardware product lifecycle support policy' (my.f5.com, public, no sign-in), last modified 2026-09-30. The article was read twice on 2026-10-24: the support portal's own article record and the article as rendered in the built-in browser (all 192 table rows identical), by tools/f5-hardware.mjs, which refuses to write on any difference. The weekly verifier re-reads the article and compares every cycle field by field.

Field mapping, in F5's words: at End of New Software Support (EoNSS) F5 'ceases all software development and testing for that product in future software releases'; the Regular Support phase continues to End of Software Support (EoSS) with 'repair and maintenance of hardware, software, and firmware'; in the Extended Support phase that follows F5 'will not provide repair or maintenance services for software or firmware defects', including patches for CVEs, and Extended Support ends at End of Technical Support (EoTS). So support is EoNSS, eol is EoSS, and extendedSupport is EoTS (technical support only, no fixes). End of Sale, Start of Extended Support, End of RMA and the First Customer Ship month are carried as F5 prints them. Where F5 prints '---' no date has been announced and none is served. Rows from K4309's Common Criteria table carry a (Common Criteria) suffix; rows from its End of Life table are past EoTS. The BIG-IP software lines are on the big-ip page.

F5 BIG-IP, VIPRION and VELOS (hardware) release and support pattern

Of the 192 release lines tracked, 141 are past end of life and 51 are still within support. The next scheduled end of life is 10350v FIPS (D112) on January 1, 2027 — 68 days from this build. The longest-supported line currently published is VIPRION B4460 Blade (A121), to January 1, 2029. Upstream also publishes an extended-support phase for 171 lines, shown in the table above.

Computed from the tracked release data at every build — the figures above are the dates in the table, restated, not an editorial estimate.

What does F5 BIG-IP, VIPRION and VELOS (hardware) end of life mean for your organization?

When a version of F5 BIG-IP, VIPRION and VELOS (hardware) 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: A CVE-based scan does not show the accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software. Some scanners flag unsupported versions of common products, but coverage varies, and none of them give you the date in advance. With a zero-day, nobody knows about the vulnerability. With EOL software, the vulnerability is public — listed, rated, and often weaponized — but no vendor patch is coming. This is one of the most dangerous gaps in enterprise security posture.

Organizations running EOL F5 BIG-IP, VIPRION and VELOS (hardware) 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.

Your options when F5 BIG-IP, VIPRION and VELOS (hardware) reaches end of life

There are four realistic paths. Which one is right depends far more on how long the system needs to keep running than on the version you are on today.

How to choose, in one question: how many more years does this system need to run? Under a year, extended support (where it exists) is usually cheaper than an emergency migration. One to three years, migrate — support purchased repeatedly costs more than doing the project once, and the project only gets harder as the version ages. Indefinitely, migrate now and plan the next migration before it surprises you.

Worth saying plainly, because vendors selling extended support rarely will: extended support is often the more expensive choice over a multi-year horizon. It is the right answer when a deadline is genuinely unreachable, not as a default. Compare the annual fee against the one-time cost of migrating before committing to either.

Formalizing decisions like this across your estate? Our free EOL policy template is a ready-to-adopt policy with risk tiers, remediation SLAs, and audit mapping — no signup, free to use and share.

Extended Support Options

If you cannot migrate immediately, check whether the vendor or a third party sells extended support with security patches for your F5 BIG-IP, VIPRION and VELOS (hardware) version; coverage varies by product and version. Where it exists it is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.

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