This End-of-Support plan for the Barracuda NextGen Firewall and CloudGen Firewall contains forward-looking statements based on current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions of Barracuda Networks that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties associated with Barracuda Networks’ business that could cause actual results to vary materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. Barracuda Networks is committed to providing maintenance releases for supported firmware every 4 months. At least one release in an 18-month time period will be supported for 30 months (Long Term Support Version). Support includes technical support, bug fixes, maintenance releases, workarounds, and patches for critical bugs.
Definitions
- Long Term Support – Long Term Support versions provide at least 30 months of support from release date.
- Standard Support – Standard Support versions provide 18 months of support from release date.
- EoS – End of Support.
End-of-Support (EoS) plan for Barracuda NextGen- and CloudGen Firewall firmware, client, and utility releases
Firmware / Product Version | Release Date | EoS Date | Maintenance Type |
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CloudGen Firewall 9.0.0 | April 2023 | October 2024 | Standard Support |
CloudGen Firewall 8.3.x | February 2022 | August 2024 | Long Term Support |
CloudGen Firewall 8.2.x | June 2021 | June 2023 | Standard Support |
CloudGen Firewall 8.0.x ***** (see also important footnote below) | November 2018 | June 2023 | Long Term Support |
CloudGen Firewall 7.2.x | EoS | ||
NextGen Firewall 7.1.x | EoS | ||
NextGen Firewall 7.0.x | EoS | ||
NextGen Firewall 6.2.x | EoS | ||
NextGen Firewall 6.1.x | EoS | ||
NextGen Firewall 6.0.x | EoS | ||
NextGen Firewall 5.4.x | EoS | ||
NextGen Firewall 5.2.x | EoS | ||
NextGen Firewall 5.0.x | EoS | ||
NextGen Firewall 4.2.x | EoS | ||
FSC 1.x | October 3rd, 2016 | December 2023 | Long Term Support |
FSC 2.x | March 26th, 2018 | currently no planned EoS date | Long Term Support |
Network Access Clients 5.3.x | February 2022 | To be announced | Long Term Support |
Network Access Clients 5.2.x | January 2021 | June 2023 | Long Term Support |
Network Access Clients 5.1.x | EoS | ||
Network Access Clients 5.0.x | EoS | ||
Network Access Clients 4.x | EoS | ||
Network Access Clients 3.x | EoS | ||
Network Access Clients 2.x | EoS | ||
MacOS Network Access Clients 5.x | June 2021 | to be announced | Long Term Support |
Linux Network Access Clients 5.x | January 2019 | to be announced | Long Term Support |
OS X VPN Clients 3.x | EoS | ||
CudaLaunch | currently no planned EoS date | Long Term Support | |
DC Agent 7.x | currently no planned EoS date | Long Term Support | |
DC Agent 6.x | EoS | ||
Terminal Server Agent 1.x | currently no planned EoS date | Long Term Support | |
Report Creator 2.x | currently no planned EoS date | Long Term Support | |
Barracuda Earth 2.x | EoS | ||
NG Remote for iOS | EoS | ||
Firewall Authentication Client | EoS |