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 | 5766 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11.1 | — | Dec 18, 2008 | Jan 14, 2011 | 5594 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11.2 | — | Nov 12, 2009 | May 12, 2011 | 5476 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11.3 | — | Jul 15, 2010 | Jan 20, 2012 | 5223 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11.4 | — | Mar 10, 2011 | Nov 5, 2012 | 4933 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.1 | — | Nov 16, 2011 | May 15, 2013 | 4742 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.2 | — | Sep 5, 2012 | Jan 15, 2014 | 4497 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.3 | — | Mar 13, 2013 | Jan 29, 2015 | 4118 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13.1 | — | Jan 8, 2014 | Feb 3, 2016 | 3748 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13.2 | — | Nov 4, 2014 | Jan 17, 2017 | 3399 days past EOL | EOL |
| 42.1 | — | Nov 4, 2015 | May 17, 2017 | 3279 days past EOL | EOL |
| 42.2 | — | Nov 16, 2016 | Jan 26, 2018 | 3025 days past EOL | EOL |
| 42.3 | — | Jul 26, 2017 | Jul 1, 2019 | 2504 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.0 | — | May 25, 2018 | Dec 3, 2019 | 2349 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.1 | — | May 22, 2019 | Feb 2, 2021 | 1922 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.2 | — | Jul 2, 2020 | Jan 4, 2022 | 1586 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.3 | — | Jun 2, 2021 | Dec 31, 2022 | 1225 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.4 | — | Jun 9, 2022 | Dec 7, 2023 | 884 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.5 | — | Jun 7, 2023 | Dec 31, 2024 | 494 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15.6 | — | Jun 12, 2024 | Apr 30, 2026 | 9 days past EOL | EOL |
| 16.0 | — | Oct 1, 2025 | Oct 31, 2027 | 540 days remaining | Active |
When a openSUSE version 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.
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