Visual COBOL end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for Visual COBOL, 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
- 9.0, security support to 31 Jul 2027
- Next end date
- 9.0, security support ends 31 Jul 2027
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for Visual COBOL, authoritative; each version below links its own notice where the record carries one
- Record
- Visual COBOL
- Kind
- language runtime
- Versions in the record
- 12
- Versions past vendor support
- 10
- 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/visual-cobol, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
Visual COBOL 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.0 | 19 Jul 2024 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2028 | none in the record | supported | address held, not linked | |
| 9.0 | 29 Jun 2023 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2027 | none in the record | supported | none in the record | |
| 8.0 | 13 Jul 2022 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2026 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 7.0 | 14 Sep 2021 | not given separately | 30 Sep 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | address held, not linked | |
| 6.0 | 18 Jun 2020 | not given separately | 30 Jun 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 5.0 | 21 Jun 2019 | not given separately | 30 Jun 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 4.0 | 14 Jun 2018 | not given separately | 30 Jun 2022 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 3.0 | 7 Jul 2017 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2.3 | 3 Oct 2016 | not given separately | 30 Sep 2019 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2.2 | 19 Nov 2014 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2018 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2.1 | 5 Apr 2013 | not given separately | 31 May 2017 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 2.0 | 27 Apr 2012 | not given separately | 31 Dec 2014 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice |
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.