Progress WhatsUp Gold End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all Progress WhatsUp Gold versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
Progress WhatsUp Gold 26.0 is supported, with no end-of-life or end-of-support date announced yet. 20 of 22 tracked Progress WhatsUp Gold versions are past end of life; the most recent to reach it, 24.0, did so on April 2, 2026. The full Progress WhatsUp Gold 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 | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16.0 | 16.0.3 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 16.1 | 16.1.5 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 16.2 | 16.2.9 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 16.3 | 16.3.2 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 16.4 | 16.4.1 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 16.5 | 16.5.2 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 17.0 | 17.0.3 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 17.1 | 17.1.1 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 18.0 | 18.3.1 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 19.0 | — | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 19.1 | — | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 19.2 | — | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 20.0 | 20.0.2 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 21.0 | 21.0.3 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 21.1 | 21.1.1 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 22.0 | 22.0.2 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 22.1 | 22.1.0 | — | Not published | Past EOL | EOL |
| 23.0 | 23.0.2 | — | Aug 16, 2024 | 784 days past EOL | EOL |
| 23.1 | 23.1.3 | Dec 14, 2023 | Jun 24, 2025 | 472 days past EOL | EOL |
| 24.0 | 24.0.3 | Aug 16, 2024 | Apr 2, 2026 | 190 days past EOL | EOL |
| 25.0 | 25.0.2 | Jun 24, 2025 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 26.0 | 26.0.2 | Apr 2, 2026 | TBD | Supported | Active |
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Progress WhatsUp Gold lifecycle status — the real story
Progress WhatsUp Gold is a network-monitoring server. Its lifecycle is event-driven rather than calendar-driven: under the WhatsUp Gold Life Cycle Policy (effective December 2021), a release's Active phase "ends when releases become Retired, which occurs immediately upon GA of the following replacement product release", and "When a new Release enters the Retired phase, the previously Retired release will enter the Deprecated life cycle phase". Retired releases "will not receive further Updates", with one exception: Progress may issue an Update for a CVSS 9.0 or higher vulnerability found within 90 days of retirement. Deprecated releases "are outside the scope of support". The WhatsUp Gold Life Cycle page prints each transition as a month only.
Two WhatsUp Gold vulnerabilities are in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (2026.10.08): CVE-2024-6670, an SQL injection added September 16, 2024 and flagged as used in ransomware campaigns, and CVE-2024-4885, a path traversal added March 3, 2025.
Field mapping: support is the day a release became Retired (no further Updates), and eol is the day it became Deprecated (outside the scope of support). Progress prints these as months. Where the policy ties a transition to the next release's GA, the day is that GA date from the WhatsUp Gold release notes, and in every case it falls in the month the life cycle page prints. Releases 22.1 and older were deprecated in months (May 2024, September 2023) that are not release events, so they are served as end of life without a day. The page currently prints 2026-Aug as 26.0's Active month, but the release notes date 26.0.0 to April 2, 2026 (26.0.2 shipped August 12, 2026).
Progress WhatsUp Gold release and support pattern
Across the 4 release lines with a published release date, Progress WhatsUp Gold has shipped a new line roughly every 9 months (median interval). A line typically stays supported for about 1.6 years from its release to its end-of-life date (measured on the 2 lines with both dates published).
Of the 22 release lines tracked, 20 are past end of life and 2 are still within support; 17 are marked end of life without a published date. The newest line, 26.0, was released April 2, 2026. No end-of-life date is currently published for the 2 supported lines.
Computed from the tracked release data at every build — the figures above are the dates in the table, restated, not an editorial estimate.
What does Progress WhatsUp Gold end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of Progress WhatsUp Gold 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 Progress WhatsUp Gold 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 Progress WhatsUp Gold 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.
Formalizing decisions like this across your estate? Our free EOL policy template is a ready-to-adopt policy with risk tiers, remediation SLAs, and audit mapping — no signup, free to use and share.
Extended Support Options
If you cannot migrate immediately, extended support vendors provide continued security patches for EOL Progress WhatsUp Gold versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.
Progress WhatsUp Gold has 20 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 Progress WhatsUp Gold 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."