Software lifecycle
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Products -
Sophos Anti-Virus support -
PureMessage support
These operating systems are currently supported by Sophos Anti-Virus.
Retirement is when all urgent software fixes, protection updates and support will end.
Maintenance is when feature development of Sophos Anti-Virus for these operating systems will end.
| Operating systems | Retirement |
|---|---|
| DOS/Windows 3.1x | 31 July 2007 |
| Windows 95 (OSR2) | 31 December 2010 * Maintenance: 31 December 2007 |
| Windows 98 (SE) | 31 December 2010 * Maintenance: 31 December 2007 |
| Windows Me | 31 December 2008 Maintenance: 31 December 2007 |
| Windows NT4 (Service Pack 6a) on Intel (i386) Japanese version 1 |
31 December 2006 |
| Windows NT4 (Service Pack 6a) on Intel (i386) English version |
31 December 2010 * Maintenance: 31 March 2005 |
| Windows 2000 (No Service Pack, or Service Packs 1 or 2) | 28 February 2007 |
| Windows 2000 (Service Packs 3, 4) | 31 July 2012 Maintenance: 31 July 2010 |
| Windows XP (No Service Pack) | 28 February 2007 |
| 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 Workstation 5.0 | No plans to retire |
| VMware Server 1.0 | No plans to retire |
| Windows Server 2008 | No plans to retire |
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.
* Please contact Sophos or your Sophos partner to extend support beyond December 2008. Additional charge may apply.
| Operating systems | Retirement |
|---|---|
| Mac OS 8/9 | 28 February 2007 |
| Mac OS X 10.2 | 31 December 2008 |
| Mac OS X 10.3 | 31 December 2009 |
| Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 | No plans to retire |
| Distributions supported | Retirement of scanning capability | |
|---|---|---|
| On access | On demand | |
| Red Hat Linux 5.1/5.2/6.0/6.1/7.2/8 | 31 August 2007 | No plans |
| Red Hat Linux 9.0 | 31 August 2009 | No plans |
| Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 2.1 | 31 August 2007 | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | 31 August 2009 | No plans |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3/4/5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3/4/5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3 |
No plans to retire | |
| Novel Open Enterprise Server | No plans to retire | |
| SUSE Linux 6/7/8 | 31 August 2007 | No plans |
| SUSE Linux Professional 9.0 | 31 August 2007 | No plans |
| SUSE Linux Professional 9.1/9.2/9.3 | 31 December 2009 | No plans |
| openSUSE Linux 10.0/10.1/10.2/10.3 | No plans to retire | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8/9/10 | No plans to retire | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 | No plans to retire | |
| TurboLinux 6 AS/7 TurboLinux 8 Server TurboLinux Enterprise Server 8 |
31 August 2007 | No plans |
| TurboLinux 10 Server | No plans to retire | |
| Ubuntu LTS Server Edition 6.06/8.04 | No plans to retire | |
| Miracle Linux 4.0 Asianux 2.0 |
No plans to retire | |
| Linux using other distributions on libc6 on Intel (i386) | Not applicable | No plans |
| Operating systems supported | Retirement |
|---|---|
| NetWare 4.2/5 | 31 December 2006 |
| NetWare 5.1 | No plans to retire |
| NetWare 6.0 | 31 December 2007 |
| NetWare 6.5 | No plans to retire |
| NetWare Open Enterprise Server 1/2 | No plans to retire |
| OS/2 Warp version 3/4 | 31 December 2007 |
| OS/2 Emergency Sweep Distribution | 31 December 2006 |
| Tru64 UNIX (Digital UNIX) 4.0D/5.1A on Alpha | 31 December 2007 |
| FreeBSD 3.0/3.4/4.0 on Intel (i386) | 31 December 2009 |
| FreeBSD 4.5/4.8/5.1/5.2/5.3/5.4/6/7 on Intel (i386) | No plans to retire |
| HP-UX 11iv1/11iv2 on HP-PA | 31 August 2009 |
| HP-UX 11iv2/11iv3 on Itanium 2 | No plans to retire |
| AIX 4.2/5.1 on PowerPC | 31 August 2009 |
| 5.2/5.3/6.1 on PowerPC | No plans to retire |
| Solaris 7/8 on Intel (i386) | 31 August 2009 |
| Solaris 8 on SPARC | 31 August 2009 |
| Solaris 9/10 on SPARC | No plans to retire |
| Solaris Sun OS 5.6 on SPARC | 31 August 2009 |
| SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 on Intel (i386) | No plans to retire |
| SCO OpenServer 5.0.5/5.0.7/6 on Intel (i386) | 31 August 2009 |
| OpenVMS 5.4-3 on VAX | No plans to retire |
| OpenVMS 1.5 to 6 on Alpha | 31 December 2009 |
| OpenVMS 7.x on Alpha | No plans to retire |
| OpenVMS 8.2/8.3 on Itanium 2 | No plans to retire |
