Fedora End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all Fedora versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
| Version | Latest Release | Release Date | EOL Date | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Nov 5, 2003 | Sep 20, 2004 | 7946 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2 | 2 | May 18, 2004 | Apr 11, 2005 | 7743 days past EOL | EOL |
| 3 | 3 | Nov 8, 2004 | Jan 16, 2006 | 7463 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4 | 4 | Jun 13, 2005 | Aug 7, 2006 | 7260 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5 | 5 | Mar 20, 2006 | Jul 2, 2007 | 6931 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6 | 6 | Oct 24, 2006 | Dec 7, 2007 | 6773 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7 | 7 | May 31, 2007 | Jun 13, 2008 | 6584 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8 | 8 | Nov 8, 2007 | Jan 7, 2009 | 6376 days past EOL | EOL |
| 9 | 9 | May 13, 2008 | Jul 10, 2009 | 6192 days past EOL | EOL |
| 10 | 10 | Nov 25, 2008 | Dec 17, 2009 | 6032 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11 | 11 | Jun 9, 2009 | Jun 25, 2010 | 5842 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12 | 12 | Nov 17, 2009 | Dec 2, 2010 | 5682 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13 | 13 | May 25, 2010 | Jun 24, 2011 | 5478 days past EOL | EOL |
| 14 | 14 | Nov 2, 2010 | Dec 9, 2011 | 5310 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15 | 15 | May 24, 2011 | Jun 26, 2012 | 5110 days past EOL | EOL |
| 16 | 16 | Nov 8, 2011 | Feb 12, 2013 | 4879 days past EOL | EOL |
| 17 | 17 | May 29, 2012 | Jul 30, 2013 | 4711 days past EOL | EOL |
| 18 | 18 | Jan 15, 2013 | Jan 14, 2014 | 4543 days past EOL | EOL |
| 19 | 19 | Jul 2, 2013 | Jan 6, 2015 | 4186 days past EOL | EOL |
| 20 | 20 | Dec 17, 2013 | Jun 23, 2015 | 4018 days past EOL | EOL |
| 21 | 21 | Dec 9, 2014 | Dec 1, 2015 | 3857 days past EOL | EOL |
| 22 | 22 | May 26, 2015 | Jul 19, 2016 | 3626 days past EOL | EOL |
| 23 | 23 | Nov 3, 2015 | Dec 20, 2016 | 3472 days past EOL | EOL |
| 24 | 24 | Jun 21, 2016 | Aug 8, 2017 | 3241 days past EOL | EOL |
| 25 | 25 | Nov 22, 2016 | Dec 12, 2017 | 3115 days past EOL | EOL |
| 26 | 26 | Jul 11, 2017 | May 29, 2018 | 2947 days past EOL | EOL |
| 27 | 27 | Nov 14, 2017 | Nov 30, 2018 | 2762 days past EOL | EOL |
| 28 | 28 | May 1, 2018 | May 28, 2019 | 2583 days past EOL | EOL |
| 29 | 29 | Oct 30, 2018 | Nov 26, 2019 | 2401 days past EOL | EOL |
| 30 | 30 | Apr 30, 2019 | May 26, 2020 | 2219 days past EOL | EOL |
| 31 | 31 | Oct 29, 2019 | Nov 24, 2020 | 2037 days past EOL | EOL |
| 32 | 32 | Apr 28, 2020 | May 25, 2021 | 1855 days past EOL | EOL |
| 33 | 33 | Oct 27, 2020 | Nov 30, 2021 | 1666 days past EOL | EOL |
| 34 | 34 | Apr 27, 2021 | Jun 7, 2022 | 1477 days past EOL | EOL |
| 35 | 35 | Nov 2, 2021 | Dec 13, 2022 | 1288 days past EOL | EOL |
| 36 | 36 | May 10, 2022 | May 16, 2023 | 1134 days past EOL | EOL |
| 37 | 37 | Nov 15, 2022 | Dec 5, 2023 | 931 days past EOL | EOL |
| 38 | 38 | Apr 18, 2023 | May 21, 2024 | 763 days past EOL | EOL |
| 39 | 39 | Nov 7, 2023 | Nov 26, 2024 | 574 days past EOL | EOL |
| 40 | 40 | Apr 23, 2024 | May 13, 2025 | 406 days past EOL | EOL |
| 41 | 41 | Oct 29, 2024 | Dec 15, 2025 | 190 days past EOL | EOL |
| 42 | 42 | Apr 15, 2025 | May 27, 2026 | 27 days past EOL | EOL |
| 43 | 43 | Oct 28, 2025 | Dec 9, 2026 | 169 days remaining | Warning |
| 44 | 44 | Apr 28, 2026 | Jun 2, 2027 | 344 days remaining | Active |
What does Fedora end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of Fedora 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 Fedora 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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