Oracle E-Business Suite End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all Oracle E-Business Suite versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 (Continuous Innovation) is supported, with no end-of-life or end-of-support date announced yet. 13 of 14 tracked Oracle E-Business Suite versions are past end of life; the most recent to reach it, 12.1, did so on December 31, 2021. The full Oracle E-Business Suite lifecycle, with every version's release and end-of-support date, is in the table below.
Running an EOL version? Get matched with support options — free ↓| Version | Latest Release | Release Date | EOL Date | Extended Support | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.0.3 | 11.0.3 | — | Feb 28, 2007 | — | 7164 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.1) | 11.5.1 | — | Jul 31, 2006 | — | 7376 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.2) | 11.5.2 | — | Jul 31, 2006 | — | 7376 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.3) | 11.5.3 | — | Jul 31, 2006 | — | 7376 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.4) | 11.5.4 | — | Jul 31, 2006 | — | 7376 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.5) | 11.5.5 | — | Jul 31, 2006 | — | 7376 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.6) | 11.5.6 | — | Jul 31, 2006 | — | 7376 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.7) | 11.5.7 | — | May 31, 2007 | — | 7072 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.8) | 11.5.8 | — | Nov 30, 2007 | — | 6889 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.9) | 11.5.9 | — | Jun 30, 2008 | — | 6676 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11i (11.5.10) | 11.5.10 | — | Nov 30, 2010 | Nov 30, 2013 Extended support (ended) |
5793 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12 (12.0.x) | 12.0 | — | Jan 31, 2012 | Jan 31, 2015 Extended support (ended) |
5366 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.1 | 12.1 | — | Dec 31, 2021 | — | 1744 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12.2 (Continuous Innovation) | 12.2.15 | — | TBD | — | Supported | Active |
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Oracle E-Business Suite lifecycle status — the real story
Oracle E-Business Suite's support windows come from Oracle's Applications Lifetime Support Policy (edition effective August 7, 2026). Release 12.2 is on Oracle's Continuous Innovation model: Oracle prints a "Premier Support Through At Least" date and says it "may be extended in one-year increments" and that Oracle "currently has no plans to end Premier Support". That is a minimum commitment, not an end date, so 12.2 is shown with no end of support. Extended Support for 12.2 is "Not Applicable".
Older releases have fixed dates, published as months; Oracle states that "unless otherwise noted, each stage of support is provided through the last day of the month", so dates are the last day of Oracle's month. Release 12.1 had no Extended Support ("Not Available") and is now in Sustaining Support, which brings no new fixes or security patches. Release 11.0.3 is the one row whose Sustaining Support also ended. Product-level exceptions inside 12.2 (Value Chain Planning and Demantra, Sales and Marketing products, Information Discovery Plus, Mobile Application Framework) end earlier than the suite and are listed in Oracle's exceptions table.
E-Business Suite is heavily targeted: CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog lists four E-Business Suite entries (CVE-2026-46817, CVE-2025-61884, CVE-2025-61882 and CVE-2022-21587), three of them flagged as used in ransomware campaigns. Oracle's July 2026 Critical Patch Update covers versions 12.2.3 to 12.2.15 only.
Oracle E-Business Suite release and support pattern
Of the 14 release lines tracked, 13 are past end of life and 1 is still within support. No end-of-life date is currently published for the 1 supported line. Upstream also publishes an extended-support phase for 2 lines, shown in the table above.
Computed from the tracked release data at every build — the figures above are the dates in the table, restated, not an editorial estimate.
Oracle E-Business Suite security intelligence
CISA KEV history: Oracle E-Business Suite is named in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog 4 times, most recently on 2026-07-15, including use in ransomware campaigns. Derived from CISA's live catalog at every build.
What does Oracle E-Business Suite end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of Oracle E-Business Suite 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: A CVE-based scan does not show the accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software. Some scanners flag unsupported versions of common products, but coverage varies, and none of them give you the date in advance. With a zero-day, nobody knows about the vulnerability. With EOL software, the vulnerability is public — listed, rated, and often weaponized — but no vendor patch is coming. This is one of the most dangerous gaps in enterprise security posture.
Organizations running EOL Oracle E-Business Suite 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.
Your options when Oracle E-Business Suite reaches end of life
There are four realistic paths. Which one is right depends far more on how long the system needs to keep running than on the version you are on today.
| Option | Best when | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Move to a supported version | The system will outlive the current version's support window and you can schedule the work | Budget for compatibility testing, not just the upgrade itself — that is where the real cost sits |
| Replace the component | The project is unmaintained, or a better-supported alternative exists | The replacement has its own lifecycle and its own end-of-life date — you are changing vendors, not escaping the problem |
| Buy extended support | Migration is genuinely underway but cannot finish before the deadline, or the workload is frozen by certification or a third-party application | A bridge, not a destination — every year purchased is a year the migration still has to happen |
| Document accepted risk | The system is isolated, short-lived, or scheduled for retirement | Only defensible with real compensating controls and a written decision — auditors treat undocumented end-of-life software as a finding |
How to choose, in one question: how many more years does this system need to run? Under a year, extended support (where it exists) is usually cheaper than an emergency migration. One to three years, migrate — support purchased repeatedly costs more than doing the project once, and the project only gets harder as the version ages. Indefinitely, migrate now and plan the next migration before it surprises you.
Worth saying plainly, because vendors selling extended support rarely will: extended support is often the more expensive choice over a multi-year horizon. It is the right answer when a deadline is genuinely unreachable, not as a default. Compare the annual fee against the one-time cost of migrating before committing to either.
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Extended Support Options
If you cannot migrate immediately, extended support vendors provide continued security patches for EOL Oracle E-Business Suite versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.
Oracle E-Business Suite has 13 versions past end of life — security patches have stopped, but CVE disclosures haven't. Extended support past the official date exists for many products in this position — whether it exists for Oracle E-Business Suite is exactly what we check. Tell us where to reach you and we'll reply with matched options and pricing guidance — or an honest "no vendor covers this."