Visual COBOL End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all Visual COBOL versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
| Version | Latest Release | Release Date | EOL Date | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | — | Apr 27, 2012 | Dec 31, 2014 | 4192 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2.1 | — | Apr 5, 2013 | May 31, 2017 | 3310 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2.2 | — | Nov 19, 2014 | Jul 31, 2018 | 2884 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2.3 | — | Oct 3, 2016 | Sep 30, 2019 | 2458 days past EOL | EOL |
| 3.0 | — | Jul 7, 2017 | Jul 31, 2021 | 1788 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.0 | — | Jun 14, 2018 | Jun 30, 2022 | 1454 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.0 | — | Jun 21, 2019 | Jun 30, 2023 | 1089 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.0 | — | Jun 18, 2020 | Jun 30, 2024 | 723 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7.0 | — | Sep 14, 2021 | Sep 30, 2025 | 266 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8.0 | — | Jul 13, 2022 | Jul 31, 2026 | 38 days remaining | Warning |
| 9.0 | — | Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 31, 2027 | 403 days remaining | Active |
| 10.0 | — | Jul 19, 2024 | Jul 31, 2028 | 769 days remaining | Active |
What does Visual COBOL end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of Visual COBOL 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 Visual COBOL 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 Visual COBOL versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.
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