Oracle Solaris Lifecycle: End Of Life And Support Status
Last updated on January 26, 2024
Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system that provides a highly efficient and scalable solution that sits at the platform’s core. Workstations and servers running x86-64 and SPARC are supported. It is renowned for its scalability, speed, reliability, and cutting-edge technologies like ZFS and DTrace.
Support status guide
End of life (EOL) is the end of a product’s useful life. When a product reaches the end of its life cycle, the manufacturer no longer supports it. The following table explains the different phases of a product’s lifecycle. Testing status is when the product is initially released and EOL is when product support is no longer offered. The time between these two points is the support timeframe.
Testing
The software is not yet publicly available. It is in testing phase i.e., alpha, beta, release preview etc.
Active
The software is actively supported by the vendor.
Phasing Out
The software will soon reach its end of life. You need to look for upgrade or migration options. The software will automatically go into phasing out status 2 months before end of life.
End Of Life
The software is no longer supported by the vendor. You need to make sure your system and environment are safe.
Version
Released
Premier Support
Extended Support
(28 August 2018)
(1 November 2031)
(1 November 2034)
(26 October 2015)
(1 January 2021)
(1 January 2027)
(29 April 2014)
(3 October 2012)
(9 November 2011)
(31 January 2005)
(1 January 2018)
(1 January 2027)
(28 May 2002)
(1 October 2011)
(1 October 2014)
(1 February 2000)
(1 March 2009)
(1 March 2012)
Oracle Solaris support is based on the Oracle Lifetime Support Policy, which essentially provides 3 tiers of support:
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Premier Support: Available for a minimum of 10 years from the day of general availability. It provides access to technical support, bug and security fixes, and upgrade scripts, and is included with the purchase of an Oracle Solaris license.
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Extended Support: Available for an additional 3 years from the end of the Premier Support. It provides access to technical support, bug and security fixes, upgrade scripts, and regulatory updates. This support model incurs an additional cost.
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Sustaining Support: Available indefinitely from the end of the Extended Support period or, if Extended Support was not purchased, from the end of the Premier Support period. It provides major product and technology releases, technical support, and access to critical patch updates created during the Premier and Extended Support periods. Of course, all this is for an additional cost.
To learn more about the support lifecycle for Oracle Solaris, read the Oracle Lifetime Support Policy.
EOLs
