Wireshark end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for Wireshark, 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
- 4.4, security support to no end date announced
- Next end date
- none announced in the record
- 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 Wireshark, authoritative; each version below links its own notice where the record carries one
- Record
- Wireshark
- Kind
- application
- Versions in the record
- 19
- Versions past vendor support
- 17
- 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/wireshark, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
Wireshark 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | 8 Oct 2025 | ended, date not published | no end date announced | none in the record | supported, no end date announced | none in the record | |
| 4.4 | 28 Aug 2024 | 8 Oct 2025 | no end date announced | none in the record | security fixes only | none in the record | |
| 4.2 | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Aug 2024 | 8 Oct 2025 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 4.0 | 4 Oct 2022 | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Aug 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.6 LTS | 22 Nov 2021 | 4 Oct 2022 | 22 May 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.4 | 29 Oct 2020 | 22 Nov 2021 | 7 Sep 2022 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.2 | 18 Dec 2019 | 29 Oct 2020 | 22 Nov 2021 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 3.0 | 28 Feb 2019 | 18 Dec 2019 | 29 Oct 2020 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.6 LTS | 18 Apr 2018 | 28 Feb 2019 | 18 Oct 2020 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.4 | 19 Jul 2017 | 18 Apr 2018 | 19 Jul 2019 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.2 | 7 Sep 2016 | 19 Jul 2018 | 7 Sep 2018 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 2.0 | 18 Nov 2015 | 7 Sep 2016 | 18 Nov 2017 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.12 | 31 Jul 2014 | 18 Nov 2015 | 31 Jul 2016 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.10 | 5 Jun 2013 | 31 Jul 2014 | 5 Jun 2015 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.8 | 21 Jun 2012 | 5 Jun 2013 | 21 Jun 2014 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.6 | 7 Jun 2011 | 21 Jun 2012 | 7 Jun 2013 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.4 | 29 Aug 2010 | 7 Jun 2011 | 30 Aug 2012 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.2 | 15 Jun 2009 | 30 Aug 2010 | 30 Jun 2011 | none in the record | past vendor support | none in the record | |
| 1.0 | 29 Mar 2008 | 15 Jun 2009 | 30 Jun 2011 | 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.