Bitcoin Core end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for Bitcoin Core, read on 30 Sep 2026: when security support ends for each version (cycle), when active support ends, and extended support where the record shows it. Below them, what Cyber Essentials, the Essential Eight, CIS Controls v8, PCI DSS and NIST SP 800-53 ask of a version past its end.
- Oldest version still in support
- 29, security support to no end date announced
- Next end date
- none announced in the record
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for Bitcoin Core, authoritative; each version below links its own notice where the record carries one
- Record
- Bitcoin Core
- Kind
- server application
- Versions in the record
- 24
- Versions past vendor support
- 21
- Essential Eight class
- an application outside the priority classes: Patch applications asks for its removal once no longer supported at ML3; at ML1 and ML2 no held Essential Eight clause turns on it.
- Source
- endoflife.date/bitcoin-core, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
Bitcoin Core versions and their support dates
as at 30 Sep 2026| Cycle | Released | Active support ends | Security support ends | Extended support ends | On the read date | Vendor notice | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 19 Apr 2026 | 20 Apr 2026 | no end date announced | none in the record | security fixes only | none in the record | |
| 30 | 10 Oct 2025 | 10 Oct 2025 | no end date announced | none in the record | security fixes only | none in the record | |
| 29 | 14 Apr 2025 | 10 Oct 2025 | no end date announced | none in the record | security fixes only | none in the record | |
| 28 | 2 Oct 2024 | 10 Oct 2025 | 19 Apr 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 27 | 16 Apr 2024 | 14 Apr 2025 | 10 Oct 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 26 | 6 Dec 2023 | 2 Oct 2024 | 14 Apr 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 25 | 18 May 2023 | 16 Apr 2024 | 2 Oct 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 24 | 24 Nov 2022 | 12 Dec 2023 | 2 Apr 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 23 | 25 Apr 2022 | 18 May 2023 | 1 Dec 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 22 | 13 Sep 2021 | 14 Dec 2022 | 1 Apr 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.21 | 15 Jan 2021 | 25 Apr 2022 | 1 Oct 2022 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.20 | 3 Jun 2020 | 13 Sep 2021 | 1 Feb 2022 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.19 | 24 Nov 2019 | 15 Jan 2021 | 1 Aug 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.18 | 2 May 2019 | 3 Jun 2020 | 1 Feb 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.17 | 3 Oct 2018 | 24 Nov 2019 | 1 Aug 2020 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.16 | 26 Feb 2018 | 2 May 2019 | 1 Feb 2020 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.15 | 15 Sep 2017 | 3 Oct 2018 | 1 Aug 2019 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.14 | 8 Mar 2017 | 26 Feb 2018 | 1 Feb 2019 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.13 | 23 Aug 2016 | 15 Sep 2017 | 1 Aug 2018 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.12 | 23 Feb 2016 | 31 Mar 2017 | 28 Feb 2018 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.11 | 12 Jul 2015 | 23 Aug 2016 | 1 Aug 2017 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.10 | 16 Feb 2015 | 29 Feb 2016 | 28 Feb 2017 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.9 | 19 Mar 2014 | 16 Jun 2015 | 28 Feb 2016 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 0.8 | 19 Feb 2013 | 19 Mar 2014 | 31 Dec 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record |
A version this table does not list is not in the record: the finder reads it as unknown, never supported. The dates are the record's own; nothing here states a date the record does not hold.
What the schemes ask of a version past its end
- Cyber Essentials
- software on in-scope devices licensed and supported by the vendor, meaning it still receives security updates; unsupported software removed or segregated (SU.1, SU.4). Cyber Essentials Plus: removed, or isolated with compensating controls (PM-02).
- Essential Eight
- An application outside the priority classes: Patch applications asks for its removal once no longer supported at ML3; at ML1 and ML2 no held Essential Eight clause turns on it.
- CIS Controls v8, Safeguard 2.2
- only software that still receives vendor support may be marked authorised; unsupported software kept for the mission needs a recorded exception with compensating controls and the acceptance of the remaining risk; support status checked at least monthly.
- PCI DSS 12.3.4
- hardware and software reviewed at least every 12 months: that vendors still supply timely security fixes, end-of-life announcements documented, and a remediation plan for outdated technology approved by senior management.
- NIST SP 800-53 SA-22
- system components replaced when support is no longer available from the developer, vendor or manufacturer, or alternative sources of continued support provided.