IBM iSeries end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for IBM iSeries, 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
- 7.5, security support to no end date announced
- Next end date
- none announced in the record
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for IBM iSeries, authoritative; each version below links its own notice where the record carries one
- Record
- IBM iSeries
- Kind
- operating system
- Versions in the record
- 24
- Versions past vendor support
- 22
- Essential Eight class
- an operating system: Patch operating systems asks that operating systems no longer supported by vendors are replaced, from ML1 (the held ML2 text carries the ML1 set).
- Source
- endoflife.date/ibm-i, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
IBM iSeries 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.6 | 18 Apr 2025 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | address held, not linked | |
| 7.5 | 10 May 2022 | not given separately | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | notice | |
| 7.4 | 21 Jun 2019 | not given separately | 30 Sep 2026 | 30 Sep 2029 | extended support only | notice | |
| 7.3 | 15 Apr 2016 | not given separately | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2028 | extended support only | notice | |
| 7.2 | 2 May 2014 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2021 | 30 Apr 2026 | past vendor support | notice | |
| 7.1 | 23 Apr 2010 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2018 | 30 Apr 2024 | past vendor support | notice | |
| 6.1 | 21 Mar 2008 | not given separately | 30 Sep 2015 | 30 Sep 2019 | past vendor support | notice | |
| 5.4 | 14 Feb 2006 | not given separately | 30 Sep 2013 | 30 Sep 2017 | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 5.3 | 11 Jun 2004 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2009 | 30 Apr 2013 | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 5.2 | 30 Aug 2002 | not given separately | 30 Apr 2007 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 5.1 | 25 May 2001 | not given separately | 30 Sep 2005 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.5 | 28 Jul 2000 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2002 | 31 Dec 2002 | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.4 | 21 May 1999 | not given separately | 31 May 2001 | 30 Nov 2001 | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.3 | 11 Sep 1998 | not given separately | 31 Jan 2001 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.2 | 27 Feb 1998 | not given separately | 31 May 2000 | 31 Jan 2001 | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.1 | 29 Aug 1997 | not given separately | 31 May 2000 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.7 | 8 Nov 1996 | not given separately | 30 Jun 1999 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.6 | 22 Dec 1995 | not given separately | 31 Oct 1998 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.2 | 21 Jun 1996 | not given separately | 31 May 2000 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.1 | 25 Nov 1994 | not given separately | 31 Oct 1998 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.0 | 3 Jun 1994 | not given separately | 31 May 1997 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.3 | 17 Dec 1993 | not given separately | 31 May 1996 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.2 | 18 Sep 1992 | not given separately | 31 Mar 1995 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.1 | 24 May 1991 | not given separately | 30 Jun 1994 | 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 operating system: Patch operating systems asks that operating systems no longer supported by vendors are replaced, from ML1 (the held ML2 text carries the ML1 set).
- 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.