Software support life cycles
DataMiner support life cycle policy
| Version | New features until | Regular updates until | Supported until | Limited support until | Not supported from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.4.x | 15 Nov 2024 | 21 Nov 2025 | 26 Feb 2027 | 25 Feb 2028 | 25 Feb 2028 |
| 10.3.x | 17 Nov 2023 | 15 Nov 2024 | 27 Feb 2026 | 26 Feb 2027 | 26 Feb 2027 |
| 10.2.x | 18 Nov 2022 | 24 Nov 2023 | 28 Feb 2025 | 27 Feb 2026 | 27 Feb 2026 |
| 10.1.x | - | 18 Nov 2022 | 23 Feb 2024 | 28 Feb 2025 | 28 Feb 2025 |
| 10.0.x | - | 17 Dec 2021 | 24 Feb 2023 | 23 Feb 2024 | 23 Feb 2024 |
| 9.6.x | - | - | 25 Feb 2022 | 24 Feb 2023 | 24 Feb 2023 |
Legend:
- New features: Monthly feature release track with all the latest new features, fixes, and security updates (main release cumulative updates also available without new features as part of main release track).
- Regular updates: Monthly cumulative updates containing all fixes and security updates as part of main release track.
- Supported: Security updates and critical bug fixes only (as required).
- Limited support: Online technical help without software updates for fixes, security updates or features.
- Not supported: No more support is available.
Tip
DataMiner functionality evolution and retirement
Important announcements about the latest changes to DataMiner core functionality and behavior.
| Item | Current status |
Detail | Future status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jobs app | End of Engineering | Module is being retired. | End of Life to be confirmed |
| Ticketing app | End of Engineering | Module is being retired. | End of Life to be confirmed |
| Annotations | End of Life | From DataMiner version 10.3.x (Q4 2022) onwards, Annotations should no longer be used. | End of Life |
| Legacy Reporter & Dashboards | End of Support | Module is being retired and replaced with the new DataMiner Dashboards app. | End of Life as of DataMiner version 10.4.x (Q4 2023) |
| Web Services API v0 | End of Life | From DataMiner version 10.1.5 onwards, version 0 of the DataMiner Web Services API is disabled. Users will be required to port any reliant applications to use Web Services API v1. | End of Life |
Status overview:
- End of Engineering: Feature will no longer be updated, but will still be supported.
- End of Support: Feature will no longer be updated and no longer be supported.
- End of Life: Feature or compatibility will be removed.
Note
For information about functionality in soft launch that is retired, refer to Overview of soft-launch options.
Third-party software support life cycle
| Item | Current status | Detail | Future status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support for MSSQL as local database | End of Life as of DataMiner 10.3 (Q4 2022) | Feature will no longer be supported. We recommend moving to Storage as a Service or Cassandra. | End of Life as of DataMiner version 10.3.x (Q4 2022) |
| Support for MySQL as local database | End of Support as of DataMiner 10.3 (Q4 2022) | Existing features will work, but some new features will require Storage as a Service or Cassandra and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch. | End of Life as of DataMiner version 10.4.x (Q4 2023) |
| Support for Amazon Keyspaces Service, Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Service, and Amazon OpenSearch Service | End of Support as of DataMiner 10.3.0 [CU8]/10.3.11 | Feature will no longer be supported. We recommend moving to Storage as a Service. Note that using a self-hosted OpenSearch database remains supported. | |
| Support for DataMiner Cube running in Internet Explorer/Edge in IE compatibility mode (XBAP) | End of Engineering | Existing features will work, but some new features will only be supported in the DataMiner Cube desktop app. | End of Life as of DataMiner version 10.3.x (Q4 2022) |
| Support for Visual Studio 2015 | End of Life as of DIS 2.35 | DIS will no longer be compatible with this Visual Studio version. | |
| Support for Visual Studio 2017 | End of Life as of DIS 2.41 | DIS will no longer be compatible with this Visual Studio version. |
Status overview:
- End of Engineering: Feature will no longer be updated, but will still be supported.
- End of Support: Feature will no longer be updated and no longer be supported.
- End of Life: Feature or compatibility will be removed.
Note
For all supported DataMiner versions, we support all Windows versions that Microsoft currently supports.