Exasol Life Cycle Policy

End-of-life (EOL) versions

When a version of Exasol reaches end-of-life (EOL) there are no more software updates, investigations, or bugfixes for that version. Incidents that occur on a version that has reached EOL are not guaranteed to be processed or resolved, and no SLAs are applicable to these cases. For this reason, we strongly recommend that you only run supported versions of Exasol.

Exasol 7.1 extended support

Extended support for Exasol 7.1 includes the following:

• OS patches (via third party provider)

• Major bug fixes

• Security fixes

Extended support for Exasol 7.1 is ending on 2025-06-30. To discuss the next steps, reach out to your Exasol account executive.

Backward and forward compatibility

The JDBC, ODBC, and ADO.NET drivers available on the Exasol download portal are fully backward compatible, meaning that the latest driver is normally compatible with all current and previous database versions. Some older platforms may not be supported by the newest driver. In this case, the last supported driver version is mentioned in the Remarks column in the following tables.

You can normally use an older driver version to connect to a newer database version. However, some features may require a minimum driver version and will therefore not be available when using an older driver.

To maintain backward compatibility we only release driver updates for the latest released version of Exasol. The end of support for a particular platform is usually bound at least until the end of their respective full/mainstream support.

We strongly recommend that you always use the latest driver version regardless of the Exasol version.

JDBC version (and Java version)

The JDBC driver is fully supported until the end of life of the Java version it is compatible with. If an explicit end-of-life date is specified for the driver, it takes precedence.

ODBC driver

The ODBC driver is fully supported until the end-of-life of the operating system. If there is an explicitly stated end-of-life date for the driver, that date takes precedence.

ADO.NET driver support for Visual Studio, SQL Server and .NET versions

ADO.NET is fully supported until the end of life of the Visual Studio version it is associated with. If there is an explicitly stated end-of-life date for ADO.NET within a particular Visual Studio version, that date takes precedence over the support provided by Visual Studio.