Retirement is when all urgent software fixes, protection updates and support will end. The date shown is the last date for support. Generally there will be no software changes made in the preceding three months. For example, a retirement date of 30 June 2011 will have the last software engine update in late March / early April 2011. Protection updates (e.g. IDE files) will continue to be provided until 30 June 2011.
Maintenance is when feature development of Sophos Anti-Virus for these operating systems will end.
Maintenance will end 12 months before the Retirement date shown.
| Distributions supported | Retirement of scanning capability |
|---|
| On access scanning support (v7 and v9) | On demand (v4) |
|---|
| Asianux 2.0 Server |
31 August 2011 |
31 March 2013 |
| Asianux 3.0 Server |
No plans to retire |
| Miracle Linux 4.0 |
31 March 2013* |
31 March 2013 |
| Novell Open Enterprise Server 1.0 |
31 March 2013 |
| Novell Open Enterprise Server 2.0 |
No plans to retire |
| Open SUSE 10.0 |
Retired |
30 September 2012 |
| Open SUSE 10.1 |
Retired |
30 September 2012 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 |
Retired |
30 September 2012 |
Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
|
Retired |
30 September 2012 |
Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 |
No plans to retire |
RHEL 5.3 EUS
RHEL 5.7 EUS |
No plans to retire |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.0 |
Retired |
30 September 2012 |
| SUSE Linux Professional 9.1/9.2/9.3 |
Retired |
31 March 2013 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0/10.0/11.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.0 SP1/2
|
No plans to retire |
Turbolinux 10 Server
Turbolinux 11 Server
|
No plans to retire |
| Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition |
Retired |
30 September 2012 |
| Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition |
No plans to retire |
| Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition |
No plans to retire |
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server Edition |
No plans to retire |
Not supported |
* version 7 only, will not be supported in future versions of Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux
For information on retirement of Sophos Anti-Virus packages, read this KBA