Exasol Life Cycle Policy
This article describes end-of-life dates for Exasol releases and support information for drivers and clients.
Exasol releases support
| Release | Release date | End-of-life date | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exasol 8 Innovation 2025.1 | 2025-06-30 | ||
| Exasol 8 AWS (rolling release) | 2023-06-01 | The rolling release stream is deprecated. We recommend that you update to 2025.1.0 or later. | |
| Exasol 8 as application (rolling release) | 2023-06-01 | ||
| Exasol 7.1 (extended support) | 2024-07-01 | 2025-06-30 | |
| Exasol 7.1 (regular support) | 2021-08-03 | 2024-06-30 | Out of support since 2024-06-30 |
| Exasol 7.0 | 2020-09-11 | 2023-06-30 | Out of support since 2023-06-30 |
| Exasol 6.2 | 2019-07-24 | 2021-12-31 | Out of support since 2021-12-31 |
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:
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OS patches (via third party provider)
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Major bug fixes
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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.
Client platform support
The drivers 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 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 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.
We recommend that you always use the latest driver/client version regardless of the Exasol version.
For details about the compatibility of the current driver/client versions, see the following articles:
See also the information on the Download Portal.
