MySQL end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for MySQL, 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
- 8.4, security support to 30 Apr 2032
- Next end date
- 8.4, security support ends 30 Apr 2032
- Editions and channels
- LTS marks a long-term support version, with longer dates than the standard versions beside it.
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for MySQL, authoritative; each version below links its own notice where the record carries one
- Record
- MySQL
- Kind
- database
- Versions in the record
- 16
- Versions past vendor support
- 14
- 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/mysql, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
MySQL 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.7 LTS | 21 Apr 2026 | 30 Apr 2031 | 30 Apr 2034 | none in the record | supported | address held, not linked | |
| 9.6 | 20 Jan 2026 | 21 Apr 2026 | 21 Apr 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| 9.5 | 21 Oct 2025 | 20 Jan 2026 | 20 Jan 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| 9.4 | 22 Jul 2025 | 21 Oct 2025 | 21 Oct 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| 9.3 | 15 Apr 2025 | 22 Jul 2025 | 22 Jul 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| 9.2 | 21 Jan 2025 | 15 Apr 2025 | 15 Apr 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| 9.1 | 15 Oct 2024 | 21 Jan 2025 | 21 Jan 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| 9.0 | 1 Jul 2024 | 15 Oct 2024 | 15 Oct 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 8.4 LTS | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2029 | 30 Apr 2032 | none in the record | supported | none in the record | |
| 8.3 | 16 Jan 2024 | 30 Apr 2024 | 30 Apr 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 8.2 | 25 Oct 2023 | 16 Jan 2024 | 16 Jan 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 8.1 | 18 Jul 2023 | 25 Oct 2023 | 25 Oct 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 8.0 LTS | 19 Apr 2018 | 30 Apr 2025 | 30 Apr 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 5.7 | 9 Oct 2015 | 31 Oct 2020 | 31 Oct 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 5.6 | 1 Feb 2013 | 28 Feb 2018 | 28 Feb 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| 5.5 | 3 Dec 2010 | 31 Dec 2015 | 31 Dec 2018 | 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.