SolarWinds Orion Platform End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all SolarWinds Orion Platform versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
SolarWinds Orion Platform 2026.2 is supported, with no end-of-life or end-of-support date announced yet. The next SolarWinds Orion Platform version to reach end of life is 2023.4, on November 20, 2026. 19 of 29 tracked SolarWinds Orion Platform versions are past end of life; the most recent to reach it, 2023.2, did so on July 10, 2026. The full SolarWinds Orion 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 | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015.1 | — | — | Jun 15, 2018 | 3039 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2016.1 | — | — | Dec 7, 2018 | 2864 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2016.2 | — | — | Aug 31, 2019 | 2597 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2017.1 | — | — | Mar 4, 2020 | 2411 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2017.3 | — | — | Dec 6, 2020 | 2134 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2018.2 | — | — | Nov 25, 2021 | 1780 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2018.4 | — | — | Jul 15, 2022 | 1548 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2019.2 | — | — | Aug 26, 2023 | 1141 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2019.4 | — | — | Aug 26, 2023 | 1141 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2020.2 | — | — | Nov 18, 2023 | 1057 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2020.2.1 | — | — | Nov 18, 2023 | 1057 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2020.2.4 | — | — | Nov 18, 2023 | 1057 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2020.2.5 | — | — | Feb 17, 2024 | 966 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2020.2.6 | — | — | May 18, 2024 | 875 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2022.2 | — | — | Dec 1, 2024 | 678 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2022.3 | — | — | Mar 7, 2025 | 582 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2022.4 | — | — | Jul 4, 2025 | 463 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2023.1 | — | — | Mar 13, 2026 | 211 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2023.2 | — | — | Jul 10, 2026 | 92 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2023.3 | 2023.3.1 | Jul 25, 2023 | Nov 20, 2026 | 41 days remaining | Warning |
| 2023.4 | 2023.4.2 | Nov 1, 2023 | Nov 20, 2026 | 41 days remaining | Warning |
| 2024.1 | 2024.1.1 | Feb 6, 2024 | Mar 12, 2027 | 153 days remaining | Warning |
| 2024.2 | 2024.2.1 | Jun 4, 2024 | Jul 9, 2027 | 272 days remaining | Active |
| 2024.4 | 2024.4.1 | Oct 16, 2024 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 2025.1 | 2025.1.1 | Feb 11, 2025 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 2025.2 | 2025.2.1 | Jun 10, 2025 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 2025.4 | 2025.4.3 | Oct 21, 2025 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 2026.1 | 2026.1.1 | Feb 10, 2026 | TBD | Supported | Active |
| 2026.2 | 2026.2.3 | Jun 9, 2026 | TBD | Supported | Active |
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SolarWinds Orion Platform lifecycle status — the real story
The SolarWinds Orion Platform is the shared base of SolarWinds' self-hosted monitoring products (Network Performance Monitor, Server and Application Monitor, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Network Configuration Manager and others). From release 2022.2 SolarWinds calls it the SolarWinds Platform, and since 2020.2 the modules carry the platform's version number. SolarWinds dates each platform release on its SolarWinds Platform release history page: 2023.3 and 2023.4 passed End-of-Engineering on November 20, 2025 and reach End-of-Life on November 20, 2026; 2024.1 reaches End-of-Life on March 12, 2027 and 2024.2 on July 9, 2027. Releases 2024.4 and later have no end-of-life announcement.
CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (2026.10.08) has one entry filed under SolarWinds Orion: CVE-2020-10148, an authentication bypass in the Orion API, added November 3, 2021. NVD records it as affecting "SolarWinds Orion Platform versions 2019.4 HF 5, 2020.2 with no hotfix installed, and 2020.2 HF 1"; all of those releases reached End-of-Life in 2023.
Field mapping: support is the End-of-Engineering date ("Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs" stop) and eol is the End-of-Life date ("SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support"), both exactly as SolarWinds prints them on the platform page. Each module also has its own release-history table, and the module tables mostly repeat the platform dates. Release dates come from the SolarWinds Platform release notes; notes for 2023.2 and earlier are no longer published, so those releases carry no release date.
SolarWinds Orion Platform release and support pattern
Across the 10 release lines with a published release date, SolarWinds Orion Platform has shipped a new line roughly every 4 months (median interval). A line typically stays supported for about 3.1 years from its release to its end-of-life date (measured on the 4 lines with both dates published).
Of the 29 release lines tracked, 19 are past end of life and 10 are still within support. The newest line, 2026.2, was released June 9, 2026. The next scheduled end of life is 2023.4 on November 20, 2026 — 41 days from this build. The longest-supported line currently published is 2024.2, to July 9, 2027.
Computed from the tracked release data at every build — the figures above are the dates in the table, restated, not an editorial estimate.
SolarWinds Orion Platform security intelligence
CISA KEV history: SolarWinds Orion Platform is named in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog 1 time, most recently on 2021-11-03. Derived from CISA's live catalog at every build.
What does SolarWinds Orion Platform end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion 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 SolarWinds Orion Platform versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.
SolarWinds Orion Platform has 19 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 SolarWinds Orion 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."