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 | 7964 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2 | 2 | May 18, 2004 | Apr 11, 2005 | 7761 days past EOL | EOL |
| 3 | 3 | Nov 8, 2004 | Jan 16, 2006 | 7481 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4 | 4 | Jun 13, 2005 | Aug 7, 2006 | 7278 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5 | 5 | Mar 20, 2006 | Jul 2, 2007 | 6949 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6 | 6 | Oct 24, 2006 | Dec 7, 2007 | 6791 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7 | 7 | May 31, 2007 | Jun 13, 2008 | 6602 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8 | 8 | Nov 8, 2007 | Jan 7, 2009 | 6394 days past EOL | EOL |
| 9 | 9 | May 13, 2008 | Jul 10, 2009 | 6210 days past EOL | EOL |
| 10 | 10 | Nov 25, 2008 | Dec 17, 2009 | 6050 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11 | 11 | Jun 9, 2009 | Jun 25, 2010 | 5860 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12 | 12 | Nov 17, 2009 | Dec 2, 2010 | 5700 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13 | 13 | May 25, 2010 | Jun 24, 2011 | 5496 days past EOL | EOL |
| 14 | 14 | Nov 2, 2010 | Dec 9, 2011 | 5328 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15 | 15 | May 24, 2011 | Jun 26, 2012 | 5128 days past EOL | EOL |
| 16 | 16 | Nov 8, 2011 | Feb 12, 2013 | 4897 days past EOL | EOL |
| 17 | 17 | May 29, 2012 | Jul 30, 2013 | 4729 days past EOL | EOL |
| 18 | 18 | Jan 15, 2013 | Jan 14, 2014 | 4561 days past EOL | EOL |
| 19 | 19 | Jul 2, 2013 | Jan 6, 2015 | 4204 days past EOL | EOL |
| 20 | 20 | Dec 17, 2013 | Jun 23, 2015 | 4036 days past EOL | EOL |
| 21 | 21 | Dec 9, 2014 | Dec 1, 2015 | 3875 days past EOL | EOL |
| 22 | 22 | May 26, 2015 | Jul 19, 2016 | 3644 days past EOL | EOL |
| 23 | 23 | Nov 3, 2015 | Dec 20, 2016 | 3490 days past EOL | EOL |
| 24 | 24 | Jun 21, 2016 | Aug 8, 2017 | 3259 days past EOL | EOL |
| 25 | 25 | Nov 22, 2016 | Dec 12, 2017 | 3133 days past EOL | EOL |
| 26 | 26 | Jul 11, 2017 | May 29, 2018 | 2965 days past EOL | EOL |
| 27 | 27 | Nov 14, 2017 | Nov 30, 2018 | 2780 days past EOL | EOL |
| 28 | 28 | May 1, 2018 | May 28, 2019 | 2601 days past EOL | EOL |
| 29 | 29 | Oct 30, 2018 | Nov 26, 2019 | 2419 days past EOL | EOL |
| 30 | 30 | Apr 30, 2019 | May 26, 2020 | 2237 days past EOL | EOL |
| 31 | 31 | Oct 29, 2019 | Nov 24, 2020 | 2055 days past EOL | EOL |
| 32 | 32 | Apr 28, 2020 | May 25, 2021 | 1873 days past EOL | EOL |
| 33 | 33 | Oct 27, 2020 | Nov 30, 2021 | 1684 days past EOL | EOL |
| 34 | 34 | Apr 27, 2021 | Jun 7, 2022 | 1495 days past EOL | EOL |
| 35 | 35 | Nov 2, 2021 | Dec 13, 2022 | 1306 days past EOL | EOL |
| 36 | 36 | May 10, 2022 | May 16, 2023 | 1152 days past EOL | EOL |
| 37 | 37 | Nov 15, 2022 | Dec 5, 2023 | 949 days past EOL | EOL |
| 38 | 38 | Apr 18, 2023 | May 21, 2024 | 781 days past EOL | EOL |
| 39 | 39 | Nov 7, 2023 | Nov 26, 2024 | 592 days past EOL | EOL |
| 40 | 40 | Apr 23, 2024 | May 13, 2025 | 424 days past EOL | EOL |
| 41 | 41 | Oct 29, 2024 | Dec 15, 2025 | 208 days past EOL | EOL |
| 42 | 42 | Apr 15, 2025 | May 27, 2026 | 45 days past EOL | EOL |
| 43 | 43 | Oct 28, 2025 | Dec 9, 2026 | 151 days remaining | Warning |
| 44 | 44 | Apr 28, 2026 | Jun 2, 2027 | 326 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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