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.
Managed by Sophos Enterprise Console: Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX 7 or 9
| Operating systems supported | Sophos Enterprise Console |
|---|
| SEC 4 and above |
|---|
| AIX 5.3 TL8+ |
31 March 2013 |
| AIX 6.1/7.1 |
No plans to retire |
| HP-UX 11.23/11.31 on Itanium |
No plans to retire |
| Solaris 9/10/11 on SPARC and Intel |
No plans to retire |
Unmanaged by Sophos Enterprise Console: Sophos Anti-Virus for UNIX/Netware/OpenVMS 4
| Operating systems supported | Retirement |
|---|
| AIX 5.2 on Power PC |
Retired (March 2012) |
| AIX 5.3 TL8+ on Power PC |
31 March 2013
|
| AIX 6.1 on Power PC |
No plans to retire |
| Free BSD on 4.5/4.8/5.1/5.2/5.3/5.4/6.0 on Intel (i386) |
30 September 2012 |
| Free BSD on 7.0/8.0 on Intel (i386) |
No plans to retire |
| HP-UX 10.20 on HP-PA |
31 March 2011 |
| HP-UX 11.0/11.11/11.22/11.23/11.31 on HP-PA |
31 December 2013 |
| HP-UX 11.22/11.23/11.31 on Itanium |
No plans to retire |
| NetWare 5.1 |
31 March 2013 |
| Netware 6.5 |
No plans to retire |
| OpenBSD 3.6/3.7/3.8/3.9/4.0 on Intel and AMD64 |
30 September 2012 |
| OpenVMS 5.4-3 on VAX |
31 August 2011 |
| OpenVMS 7.x on Alpha |
No plans to retire |
| OpenVMS 8.2/8.3 on Itanium 2 |
No plans to retire |
| SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 on Intel (i386) |
30 September 2012 |
| Solaris 7/8 on Intel |
31 May 2010 |
| Solaris 5.6/7/8 on SPARC |
31 May 2010 |
| Solaris 9 on Intel and SPARC |
October 2014 |
| Solaris 10 on Intel and SPARC |
No plans to retire |
For information on retirement of Sophos Anti-Virus packages, read this KBA