NetBackup Appliance OS

NetBackup Appliance OS

OS

NetBackup Appliance OS 5.5 is the newest actively maintained release, currently at patch 5.5.0.1 MR1. 2 of 11 tracked cycles remain supported.

Latest version

5.5.0.1 MR1

Jul 31, 2025

Actively maintained cycles

2

of 11 tracked

Total cycles tracked

11

since Dec 6, 2015

Support pattern

How NetBackup Appliance OS has behaved across the cycles tracked here, rather than what its policy documents state. Useful for judging how much runway a version is likely to have before you commit to it.

Typical support window

44 mo (~3.6 years)

median of 9 completed cycles

New cycle roughly every

10 months

median gap between releases

Compared with os

+9 mo

longer than the os median

Support windows are getting shorter: the most recent cycles run about 17 months less than the earlier ones.

Computed from release and end-of-life dates tracked for NetBackup Appliance OS. Medians are used rather than averages so one unusually short or long release does not skew the figure. Cycles with no recorded end-of-life date are excluded from the support window.

Release lifecycle

Actively maintainedSecurity support onlyEnd of life
Today
5.5Latest
5.5.0.1 MR1 · Jul 31, 2025
5.3
5.3.0.1 MR4 · Jan 27, 2025
5.1
EOL Sep 8, 2025
5.0
EOL Mar 28, 2025
4.1
EOL Jun 7, 2024
4.0
EOL Jan 1, 2024
3.3
EOL Jul 29, 2024
3.2
EOL Jun 28, 2023
3.1
EOL Jun 28, 2022
3.0
EOL Oct 1, 2020
2.7
EOL Oct 1, 2020
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