Exasol life cycle policy
Information about end-of-life dates for all available Exasol releases.
Exasol releases support
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Release |
Stream |
Release date |
LTS promotion |
End of life |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.2 | Legacy | 2019-07-24 | - | 2021-12-31 | Out of support since 2021-12-31 |
| 7.0 | Legacy | 2020-09-11 | - | 2023-06-30 | Out of support since 2023-06-30 |
| Exasol 7.1 (regular support) | Legacy | 2021-08-03 | - | 2024-06-30 | Out of support since 2024-06-30 |
| Exasol 7.1 (extended support) | Legacy | 2024-07-01 | - | 2025-06-30 | |
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8.N.x |
Rolling |
2023-06-01 |
- |
2025-12-31 |
N = any 8.x major release except 8.29 Out of support since 2025-12-31 |
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8.29.x |
Innovation |
2024-07-12 |
- |
2026-10-31 |
|
|
2025.1 |
LTS |
2025-07-08 |
2026-07-01 |
2028-07-31 |
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2025.2 |
Innovation |
2025-12-17 |
- |
2026-08-31 |
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2026.1 |
Innovation |
2026-05-15 |
- |
~ Q1 2027 |
EOL planned for 3 months after the release of 2026.2 |
|
2026.2 (Planned) |
LTS (Planned) |
(Planned) |
(Planned) |
~ 2029 (Planned) |
EOL planned for 2 years after LTS promotion |
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To learn more about the different release streams, see Exasol release streams.
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For details about the changes in each release, see Release notes.
End of life (EOL)
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 ended 2025-06-30. To discuss the next steps, reach out to your Exasol account executive.
Client platform support
The drivers that are available on the Exasol download portal are fully backward compatible, meaning that the latest driver is compatible with all current and previous database versions. You can normally connect to a newer database version with an older driver, but some functionality may require a minimum driver version. We recommend that you always use the latest driver/client version regardless of the Exasol version.
To maintain backward compatibility we only release driver updates for the latest released version of Exasol. The Exasol driver for a particular platform is normally supported at least to the end of the full/mainstream support period provided for that platform by the respective vendor.
Naming conventions
Exasol drivers use the versioning schema YEAR.FEATURE.BUG, where YEAR indicates the year the driver was released (last two digits).
The FEATURE component is incremented when features were added or significantly changed compared to the previous version, while BUG indicates a bug fix (no significant feature changes). For example: 25.2.3 is the third bug fix release on the second feature update released in 2025.
End-of-life (EOL) information
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The 7.1.x drivers are no longer supported.
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The 24.x drivers will reach end-of-life (EOL) on 2026-10-30.
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Starting with 25.x the drivers are supported until the end of the year following the release.
For example, JDBC 25.2.2 and ODBC 25.2.5 are supported until end of 2026. All 26.x drivers are supported until end of 2027.
We recommend that you always use the latest driver/client version regardless of the Exasol version.
For information about OS/platform compatibility of the current driver and client versions, see Drivers and libraries.
