openSUSE End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all openSUSE versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
| Version | Latest Release | Release Date | EOL Date | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0 | — | Jun 19, 2008 | Jul 26, 2010 | 5835 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11.1 | — | Dec 18, 2008 | Jan 14, 2011 | 5663 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11.2 | — | Nov 12, 2009 | May 12, 2011 | 5545 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11.3 | — | Jul 15, 2010 | Jan 20, 2012 | 5292 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11.4 | — | Mar 10, 2011 | Nov 5, 2012 | 5002 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.1 | — | Nov 16, 2011 | May 15, 2013 | 4811 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.2 | — | Sep 5, 2012 | Jan 15, 2014 | 4566 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.3 | — | Mar 13, 2013 | Jan 29, 2015 | 4187 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13.1 | — | Jan 8, 2014 | Feb 3, 2016 | 3817 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13.2 | — | Nov 4, 2014 | Jan 17, 2017 | 3468 days past EOL | EOL |
| 42.1 | — | Nov 4, 2015 | May 17, 2017 | 3348 days past EOL | EOL |
| 42.2 | — | Nov 16, 2016 | Jan 26, 2018 | 3094 days past EOL | EOL |
| 42.3 | — | Jul 26, 2017 | Jul 1, 2019 | 2573 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.0 | — | May 25, 2018 | Dec 3, 2019 | 2418 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.1 | — | May 22, 2019 | Feb 2, 2021 | 1991 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.2 | — | Jul 2, 2020 | Jan 4, 2022 | 1655 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.3 | — | Jun 2, 2021 | Dec 31, 2022 | 1294 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.4 | — | Jun 9, 2022 | Dec 7, 2023 | 953 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.5 | — | Jun 7, 2023 | Dec 31, 2024 | 563 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.6 | — | Jun 12, 2024 | Apr 30, 2026 | 78 days past EOL | EOL |
| 16.0 | — | Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 31, 2027 | 471 days remaining | Active |
What does openSUSE end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of openSUSE 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 openSUSE 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.
Extended Support Options
If you cannot migrate immediately, extended support vendors provide continued security patches for EOL openSUSE versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.
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