WordPress End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all WordPress versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
| Version | Latest Release | Release Date | EOL Date | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.6 | 3.6.1 | Aug 1, 2013 | Oct 24, 2013 | 4625 days past EOL | EOL |
| 3.7 | 3.7.41 | Oct 24, 2013 | Dec 12, 2013 | 4576 days past EOL | EOL |
| 3.8 | 3.8.41 | Dec 12, 2013 | Apr 16, 2014 | 4451 days past EOL | EOL |
| 3.9 | 3.9.40 | Apr 16, 2014 | Sep 4, 2014 | 4310 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.0 | 4.0.38 | Sep 4, 2014 | Dec 18, 2014 | 4205 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.1 | 4.1.42 | Dec 18, 2014 | Apr 23, 2015 | 4079 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.2 | 4.2.39 | Apr 23, 2015 | Aug 18, 2015 | 3962 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.3 | 4.3.35 | Aug 18, 2015 | Dec 8, 2015 | 3850 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.4 | 4.4.34 | Dec 9, 2015 | Apr 12, 2016 | 3724 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.5 | 4.5.33 | Apr 12, 2016 | Aug 16, 2016 | 3598 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.6 | 4.6.30 | Aug 16, 2016 | Dec 6, 2016 | 3486 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.7 | 4.7.33 | Dec 6, 2016 | Jun 8, 2017 | 3302 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.8 | 4.8.28 | Jun 8, 2017 | Nov 16, 2017 | 3141 days past EOL | EOL |
| 4.9 | 4.9.29 | Nov 16, 2017 | Dec 6, 2018 | 2756 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.0 | 5.0.25 | Dec 6, 2018 | Feb 21, 2019 | 2679 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.1 | 5.1.22 | Feb 21, 2019 | May 7, 2019 | 2604 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.2 | 5.2.24 | May 7, 2019 | Nov 12, 2019 | 2415 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.3 | 5.3.21 | Nov 12, 2019 | Mar 31, 2020 | 2275 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.4 | 5.4.19 | Mar 31, 2020 | Aug 11, 2020 | 2142 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.5 | 5.5.18 | Aug 11, 2020 | Dec 8, 2020 | 2023 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.6 | 5.6.17 | Dec 8, 2020 | Mar 9, 2021 | 1932 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.7 | 5.7.15 | Mar 9, 2021 | Jul 20, 2021 | 1799 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.8 | 5.8.13 | Jul 20, 2021 | Jan 25, 2022 | 1610 days past EOL | EOL |
| 5.9 | 5.9.13 | Jan 25, 2022 | May 24, 2022 | 1491 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.0 | 6.0.12 | May 24, 2022 | Nov 1, 2022 | 1330 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.1 | 6.1.10 | Nov 2, 2022 | Mar 29, 2023 | 1182 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.2 | 6.2.9 | Mar 29, 2023 | Aug 8, 2023 | 1050 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.3 | 6.3.8 | Aug 8, 2023 | Nov 7, 2023 | 959 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.4 | 6.4.8 | Nov 7, 2023 | Apr 2, 2024 | 812 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.5 | 6.5.8 | Apr 2, 2024 | Jul 16, 2024 | 707 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.6 | 6.6.5 | Jul 16, 2024 | Nov 12, 2024 | 588 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.7 | 6.7.5 | Nov 12, 2024 | Apr 15, 2025 | 434 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.8 | 6.8.5 | Apr 15, 2025 | Dec 2, 2025 | 203 days past EOL | EOL |
| 6.9 | 6.9.4 | Dec 2, 2025 | May 20, 2026 | 34 days past EOL | EOL |
| 7.0 | 7.0.0 | May 20, 2026 | TBD | Supported | Active |
What does WordPress end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of WordPress 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 WordPress 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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