Software lifecycle
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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.
| Operating systems | Retirement |
|---|---|
| Windows 95 (OSR2) | 30 September 2012 Maintenance: 31 December 2007 |
| Windows 98 (SE) | 30 September 2012 Maintenance: 31 December 2007 |
| Windows NT4 (Service Pack 6a) | 31 December 2011 Maintenance: 31 March 2005 No upgrade. Product no longer generally available. Contact your Sophos Account Manager or partner if you need extended support. |
| Windows 2000 (Service Packs 3, 4) | 31 December 2014* |
| Windows XP (Service Pack 1, 1a and 2) | No plans to retire |
| Windows Vista | No plans to retire |
| Windows Server 2003 (32-bit/64-bit) | No plans to retire |
| VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5 | No plans to retire |
| VMware vSphere 4.0 | No plans to retire |
| VMware Workstation 5.0 | No plans to retire |
| VMware Server 1.0 | No plans to retire |
| Hyper-V | No plans to retire |
| Citrix XenServer | No plans to retire |
| Windows Server 2008 | No plans to retire |
| Windows Server 2008 R2 | No plans to retire |
| Windows 7 | No plans to retire |
| DOS/Windows 3.1x | 31 July 2007 |
| Windows Me | 31 December 2008 |
| Windows NT4 (Service Pack 6a) on Intel (i386) Japanese version 1 |
31 December 2006 |
| Windows 2000 (No Service Pack, or Service Packs 1 or 2) | 28 February 2007 |
| Windows XP (No Service Pack) | 28 February 2007 |
1 Where a particular language version of Sophos Anti-Virus is no longer available, you can install the English language version of Sophos Anti-Virus instead.
* Windows 2000 Service Packs 3, 4 will be not be supported after the retirement of Endpoint Security and Control 10.x.x, no later versions will include support for this operating system
| Operating systems | Retirement |
|---|---|
| Mac OS 8/9 | 28 February 2007 |
| Mac OS X 10.2 | 31 December 2009 |
| Mac OS X 10.3 | 31 December 2010 |
| Mac OS X 10.4/10.5/10.6 | No plans to retire |
| Distributions supported | Retirement of scanning capability | |
|---|---|---|
| On access scanning support | On demand | |
| Asianux 2.0 Server | 31 August 2011 | No plans to retire |
| Asianux 3.0 Server | No plans to retire | |
| Miracle Linux 4.0 | No plans to retire | |
| Novell Open Enterprise Server 1.0 | No plans to retire | |
| Novell Open Enterprise Server 2.0 | No plans to retire | |
| Open SUSE 10.0 | Retired | No plans to retire |
| Open SUSE 10.1 | Retired | No plans to retire |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 |
Retired | No plans to retire |
| 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 |
No plans to retire | |
| RHEL 5.3 EUS RHEL 5.7 EUS |
No plans to retire | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.0 SUSE Linux Professional 9.1/9.2/9.3 |
Retired | No plans to retire |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0/10.0/11.0 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.0 SP1 |
No plans to retire | |
| Turbolinux 10 Server Turbolinux 11 Server |
No plans to retire | |
| Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition | Retired | No plans to retire |
| Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition | No plans to retire | |
| Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition | No plans to retire | |
Managed by Sophos Enterprise Console
| Operating systems supported | Sophos Enterprise Console | |
|---|---|---|
| SEC 3 | SEC 4 and above | |
| AIX 5.3 TL8+ | - | No plans to retire |
| AIX 6.1 | - | No plans to retire |
| HP-UX 11.23/11.31 on Itanium | No plans to retire | No plans to retire |
| Solaris 9/10 on SPARC and Intel | No plans to retire | No plans to retire |
Unmanaged by Sophos Enterprise Console
| Operating systems supported | Retirement |
|---|---|
| AIX 4.2 - 5.1 on Power PC | 31 May 2010 |
| AIX 5.2/5.3/6.1 on Power PC | No plans to retire |
| Free BSD on 4.5/4.8/5.1/5.2/5.3/5.4/6.0/7.0 on Intel (i386) | No plans to retire |
| HP-UX 10.20 on HP-PA | 31 Mar 2011 |
| HP-UX 11.0/11.11/11.22/11.23/11.31 on HP-PA | 31 Dec 2013 |
| HP-UX 11.22/11.23/11.31 on Itanium | No plans to retire |
| NetWare 5.1 | No plans to retire |
| Netware 6.5 | No plans to retire |
| OpenBSD 3.6/3.7/3.8/3.9/4.0 on Intel and AMD64 | No plans to retire |
| OpenVMS 5.4-3 on VAX | 31 Aug 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) | No plans to retire |
| Solaris 7/8 on Intel | 31 May 2010 |
| Solaris 5.6/7/8 on SPARC | 31 May 2010 |
| Solaris 9/10 on Intel and SPARC | No plans to retire |
