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Versioning and Support Lifecycle

GridGain releases new versions on a regular basis following a Major.Minor.Maintenance naming convention.

  • Major Releases - represent major product changes, some of which are not backward-compatible (the jump from 7.6 to 8.7 for example). Rolling Upgrades for Enterprise and Ultimate Editions are not supported for major versions changes and assume a special upgrade procedure for production clusters.

  • Minor Releases (a.k.a. Feature Releases) - introduce new features and significant improvements (for instance, 8.4, 8.5, 8.7 and 8.8). Rolling Upgrades are supported for all minor releases unless there are any breaking changes.

  • Maintenance Releases - deliver bug fixes, security patches, and performance optimizations. For instance, 8.7.3, 8.7.4, and 8.7.5 are maintenance versions. Rolling Upgrades are supported similarly to minor releases as described above.

Support Lifecycle

Description Guarantees

Standard Support

Full support for GridGain minor versions lasts for 2 years. All maintenance releases are supported while the minor version is under full support.

Extended Support

Provided for 12 months after the Standard Support ends. New releases and patches are no longer available. Workloads running on these versions receive no bug fixes, patches, or maintenance releases. Rolling upgrade to a new version is not guaranteed. Customers with active support subscription can contact GridGain for professional support.

After the Standard Support and Extended Support end, GridGain will provide best-effort support. However, we won’t be able to provide bugfixes or security updates. Please contact GridGain Sales to learn more.

The following support options are available for Standard and Premium support customers:

Description Standard Support Extended Support

Support via ticket system for service requests

Yes

Yes

Security alerts and updates

Maintenance Releases

No

Critical patch updates

Patch Releases

No

Regular patches and improvements

Maintenance Releases

No

New features

Minor Releases

No

List of Releases

GridGain Platform Releases: Full Support

Minor Version Minor Release Date Extended Support From

8.9.X

October 4, 2023

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8.8.X

December 30, 2020

October 4, 2024

GridGain Platform Releases: Extended Support

Minor Version Apache Ignite Version Release Date Extended Support From

8.7.X

2.7

March 4, 2019

December 31, 2021

8.5.X

2.5

October 31, 2018

October 31, 2020

8.4.X

2.4

April 28, 2018

April 28, 2020

8.3.X

2.3

November 2, 2017

November 2, 2019

GridGain Web Console Releases: Extended Support

Product Extended Support From

GridGain Web Console

October 2, 2021