Oracle Solaris

Oracle Solaris 11.4 is the newest actively maintained release. 3 of 8 tracked cycles remain supported. The next cycle scheduled to reach end-of-life is 10, on January 1, 2018.

Latest version

11.4

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Actively maintained cycles

of 8 tracked

Total cycles tracked

since Feb 1, 2000

Support pattern

How Oracle Solaris 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

112 mo (~9.3 years)

median of 5 completed cycles

New cycle roughly every

28 months

median gap between releases

Compared with os

+77 mo

longer than the os median

Next end of life

1879 days

Oracle Solaris 11.4

Computed from release and end-of-life dates tracked for Oracle Solaris. 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

11.4Latest

11.4 · —

11.3

EOL Jan 1, 2021

11.2

EOL —

11.1

EOL —

EOL Jan 1, 2018

EOL Oct 1, 2011

EOL Mar 1, 2009

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