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 | 4147 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2.1 | — | Apr 5, 2013 | May 31, 2017 | 3265 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2.2 | — | Nov 19, 2014 | Jul 31, 2018 | 2839 days past EOL | EOL |
| 2.3 | — | Oct 3, 2016 | Sep 30, 2019 | 2413 days past EOL | EOL |
| 3.0 | — | Jul 7, 2017 | Jul 31, 2021 | 1743 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.0 | — | Jun 14, 2018 | Jun 30, 2022 | 1409 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.0 | — | Jun 21, 2019 | Jun 30, 2023 | 1044 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.0 | — | Jun 18, 2020 | Jun 30, 2024 | 678 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7.0 | — | Sep 14, 2021 | Sep 30, 2025 | 221 days past EOL | EOL |
| 8.0 | — | Jul 13, 2022 | Jul 31, 2026 | 83 days remaining | Warning |
| 9.0 | — | Jun 29, 2023 | Jul 31, 2027 | 448 days remaining | Active |
| 10.0 | — | Jul 19, 2024 | Jul 31, 2028 | 814 days remaining | Active |
When a Visual Cobol version 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.
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