RequireJS End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all RequireJS versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
| Version | Latest Release | Release Date | EOL Date | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2.3.8 | May 28, 2012 | TBD | Supported | Active |
RequireJS lifecycle status — the real story
RequireJS was the defining AMD module loader of the pre-ES-modules era. The project has never declared an end of life, and it still receives the occasional patch (2.3.8 arrived in November 2025 — the first in years), but there has been no meaningful development for nearly a decade: the 2.x line dates to May 2012.
Native ES modules and modern bundlers eliminated the problem RequireJS solved, so its presence in an application is a strong marker of a frontend last re-architected in the early 2010s. The loader itself is small and has a modest attack surface; the risk lives mostly in the ecosystem frozen around it.
Treat RequireJS as dormant-but-undeclared: no formal EOL date exists to plan against, which paradoxically makes proactive migration planning more important, not less.
What does RequireJS end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of RequireJS 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 RequireJS 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 RequireJS versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.
We work with vetted extended support vendors. Tell us what you need and we'll connect you with the right provider.
Contact Us →