Red Hat OpenStack Platform End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all Red Hat OpenStack Platform versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 (OpenStack Services on OpenShift) is supported until August 26, 2028, its end-of-support date. Active support for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 (OpenStack Services on OpenShift) ends on August 26, 2027; security fixes continue until that end-of-life date. It is also the next Red Hat OpenStack Platform version to reach end of life. 18 of 19 tracked Red Hat OpenStack Platform versions are past end of life; the most recent to reach it, 17.1, did so on September 22, 2026. The full Red Hat OpenStack Platform 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | — | Jul 10, 2013 | Jul 31, 2014 | — | 4454 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4 | — | Dec 19, 2013 | Jun 19, 2015 | — | 4131 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5 | — | Jun 30, 2014 | Jun 30, 2017 | — | 3389 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6 | — | Feb 9, 2015 | Feb 17, 2018 | — | 3157 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7 | — | Aug 5, 2015 | Aug 5, 2018 | — | 2988 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8 | — | Apr 20, 2016 | Apr 20, 2019 | — | 2730 days past EOL | EOL |
| 9 | — | Aug 24, 2016 | Aug 24, 2019 | — | 2604 days past EOL | EOL |
| 10 | — | Dec 15, 2016 | Dec 16, 2019 | Dec 15, 2021 Red Hat Extended Life Cycle Support (ended) |
2490 days past EOL | EOL |
| 11 | — | May 18, 2017 | May 18, 2018 | — | 3067 days past EOL | EOL |
| 12 | — | Dec 13, 2017 | Dec 13, 2018 | — | 2858 days past EOL | EOL |
| 13 | — | Jun 27, 2018 | Jun 27, 2021 | Jun 27, 2023 Red Hat Extended Life Cycle Support (ended) |
1931 days past EOL | EOL |
| 14 | — | Jan 7, 2019 | Jan 7, 2020 | — | 2468 days past EOL | EOL |
| 15 | — | Sep 19, 2019 | Sep 19, 2020 | — | 2212 days past EOL | EOL |
| 16 | — | Feb 6, 2020 | Oct 27, 2020 | — | 2174 days past EOL | EOL |
| 16.1 | — | Jul 29, 2020 | Apr 30, 2024 | — | 893 days past EOL | EOL |
| 16.2 | — | Sep 15, 2021 | Apr 30, 2024 | Apr 30, 2027 Red Hat Extended Life Cycle Support |
893 days past EOL | EOL |
| 17.0 | — | Sep 22, 2022 | Sep 22, 2023 | — | 1114 days past EOL | EOL |
| 17.1 | — | Aug 16, 2023 | Sep 22, 2026 | Sep 22, 2029 Red Hat Extended Life Cycle Support |
18 days past EOL | EOL |
| 18.0 (OpenStack Services on OpenShift) | — | Aug 26, 2024 | Aug 26, 2028 | Aug 26, 2029 Red Hat Extended Life Cycle Support |
686 days remaining | Active |
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Red Hat OpenStack Platform lifecycle status — the real story
Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) is Red Hat's distribution of the OpenStack private cloud, and versions 3 to 7 were sold as Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. Red Hat publishes its dates in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform Life Cycle page and the life cycle data behind it. Version 18.0 ships as Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift. Red Hat files it as a separate product in its life cycle data but lists it on the same policy page, and it is shown here as cycle 18.0. For 17.1, Maintenance support ended on September 22, 2026, and paid Extended Life Cycle Support runs in three yearly terms to September 22, 2029. For 16.2, the third and last ELS term ends on April 30, 2027.
During Extended Life Cycle Support, Red Hat ships security updates only for "qualified Critical, Important, and Moderate CVEs with a CVSS score of 7.0 or higher", plus select bug fixes. ELS covers existing environments only, not new production installations. Terms 2 and 3 are each an optional add-on subscription. The policy page also ends director Operator support on April 30, 2027 for 16.2 and on September 22, 2027 for 17.1, and Term 2 and Term 3 are not offered for the director Operator. CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (2026.10.08) has no entry for Red Hat OpenStack Platform.
Field mapping: support is the end of Full support and eol is the end of Maintenance support. extendedSupport is the end of the latest ELS term Red Hat dates, the same rule as Red Hat JBoss EAP. Versions 17.0 and 16 had no Maintenance phase, so their eol is the Full support end. Versions 15, 14, 12, 11 and 3 had no Full support phase in Red Hat's data (only a third-party certification period), so no full-support date is shown for them.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform release and support pattern
Across the 19 release lines with a published release date, Red Hat OpenStack Platform has shipped a new line roughly every 6 months (median interval). A line typically stays in standard support for about 3 years from its release to its standard-support end date.
Of the 19 release lines tracked, 18 are past end of life and 1 is still within support. The newest line, 18.0, was released August 26, 2024. The next scheduled end of life is 18.0 on August 26, 2028 — 686 days from this build. Upstream also publishes an extended-support phase for 5 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.
What does Red Hat OpenStack Platform end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 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 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 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 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 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 Red Hat OpenStack Platform versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform has 18 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 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 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."