AMQ 7 Broker and Clients LTS Support Policy
This document only applies to the LTS releases of AMQ 7 Broker and Clients, for full product lifecycle dates please see the This content is not included.AMQ 7 Broker product lifecycle page. For more information regarding the difference in support lifecycles of non-LTS and LTS releases please see the AMQ Broker Lifecycle Overview document.
AMQ Broker
AMQ 7 Broker versions offered as a Long Term Support (LTS) release:
| Version | Release Date | End of Maintenance Support | End of Limited Support* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.4.x | July 2019 | July 2020 | July 2021 |
| 7.8.x | December 2020 | December 2021 | December 2022 |
| 7.10.x | June 2022 | June 2023 | June 2024 |
| 7.11.x | April 2023 | April 2024 | April 2025 |
| 7.12.x | May 2024 | May 2025 | May 2026 |
| 7.13.x | May 2025 | May 2026 | May 2027 |
AMQ Clients
AMQ Clients are now released using a quarterly schema. Please see the AMQ Clients Supported Configurations and AMQ Clients Detailed Life Cycle Policy.
Previous AMQ Client versions offered as a Long Term Support (LTS) release:
| Version | Release Date | End of Maintenance Support | End of Limited Support* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.9.x | January 2021 | January 2022 | January 2023 |
| 2.11.x | April 2022 | April 2023 | April 2024 |
LTS Policies
*LTS support dates are provided as general guidance and may extend further based on the availability of the next LTS release. Support for LTS may cease at the product's end of life.
The following terms apply to LTS releases:
- LTS release streams fall under the maintenance life cycle phase and as such only provide fixes for bugs and CVEs qualified as critical or important, no new enhancements will be added to this stream.
- LTS releases will be based on a specific minor release (i.e. 7.8), micro releases (i.e. 7.8.1, 7.8.2, 7.8.x, etc) will be made available during the support period of the LTS release.
- You must upgrade to the latest micro release in the LTS release stream to remain in a supported configuration.
- A patch candidate can be considered if:
- No acceptable procedural work around exists.
- There are no technical limitations to incorporating the fix into a patch release. - The LTS version will be supported for 2 years from the time of the AMQ minor GA release date.
- Maintenance Support: The first year of support will include micro releases to address general bugs and CVEs qualified as critical or important.
- Limited Support: The second year of support will be limited to critical business impacting issues as well as CVEs qualified as critical or important. - The LTS will remain supported with an OCP version which is currently in Full or Maintenance support (i.e. OCP 4.x) until a breaking API change occurs in OCP.
- See the AMQ 7 Broker Supported Configurations page for details on the supported configurations for each version.
- See the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle Policy - Life Cycle Dates page for details of supported OCP versions.