Release and end of support of the current major version, VMware and 9 alternatives, as of 2026-10-11Vendor lifecycle pages retrieved 2026-10-11. Calendar years on the horizontal axis.

• Dates are as each vendor published them on the retrieval date and can change. Month-only dates are plotted at mid-month.
• Microsoft's page source gives end times in UTC, the previous evening in US Pacific time; the chart shows the Pacific date.
• Azure Local, Proxmox VE 9, Oracle OLVM and Platform9 have no published end date for the current version, so no bar is drawn.
• Red Hat's light bar is Extended Update Support to the end of Term 2. Term 1: Premium includes it, Standard may add it.
• Row order is VMware first, then alphabetical by platform name, as in the page tables. It is not a ranking.