Python end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for Python, 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
- 3.10, security support to 31 Oct 2026
- Next end date
- 3.10, security support ends 31 Oct 2026
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for Python, authoritative; each version below links its own notice where the record carries one
- Record
- Python
- Kind
- language runtime
- Versions in the record
- 17
- Versions past vendor support
- 12
- 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/python, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
Python 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.14 | 7 Oct 2025 | 1 Oct 2027 | 31 Oct 2030 | none in the record | supported | none in the record | |
| 3.13 | 7 Oct 2024 | 1 Oct 2026 | 31 Oct 2029 | none in the record | supported | none in the record | |
| 3.12 | 2 Oct 2023 | 2 Apr 2025 | 31 Oct 2028 | none in the record | security fixes only | none in the record | |
| 3.11 | 24 Oct 2022 | 1 Apr 2024 | 31 Oct 2027 | none in the record | security fixes only | none in the record | |
| 3.10 | 4 Oct 2021 | 5 Apr 2023 | 31 Oct 2026 | none in the record | ends within 90 days | none in the record | |
| 3.9 | 5 Oct 2020 | 17 May 2022 | 31 Oct 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.8 | 14 Oct 2019 | 3 May 2021 | 7 Oct 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.7 | 27 Jun 2018 | 27 Jun 2020 | 27 Jun 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.6 | 23 Dec 2016 | 24 Dec 2018 | 23 Dec 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.5 | 13 Sep 2015 | no end date announced | 30 Sep 2020 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.4 | 16 Mar 2014 | no end date announced | 18 Mar 2019 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.3 | 29 Sep 2012 | no end date announced | 29 Sep 2017 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.2 | 20 Feb 2011 | no end date announced | 20 Feb 2016 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.7 | 3 Jul 2010 | no end date announced | 1 Jan 2020 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.1 | 27 Jun 2009 | no end date announced | 9 Apr 2012 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.0 | 3 Dec 2008 | no end date announced | 27 Jun 2009 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.6 | 1 Oct 2008 | no end date announced | 29 Oct 2013 | 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.