Nutanix AOS 7.6 End of Life Date
Nutanix AOS 7.6 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation.
Nutanix AOS 7.6 was released on July 27, 2026 and support is scheduled to end on July 31, 2028 — a planned supported lifespan of 2 years, longer than the 1 year median for Nutanix AOS releases. It is not an LTS release; Nutanix AOS reserves longer patch windows for its LTS versions. Its most recent patch is 7.6, published July 27, 2026.
What does Nutanix AOS 7.6 end of life mean?
When Nutanix AOS 7.6 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: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Running Nutanix AOS 7.6 past its EOL date creates a permanently growing attack surface that standard security tooling will not surface.
Migrate to Nutanix AOS 7.6 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.