Plesk Version Lifecycle Policy

Plesk is committed to providing high-quality, cost-effective solutions to our customers. Rapidly changing technologies influence the level, timing and character of demand for particular product versions and components. All of this drives the need to introduce new products and services as well as to end support for older software versions.

To assist our customers in this regard, we provide a clear lifecycle and end-of-life (EOL) policy to assist in planning decisions around using and upgrading both Plesk and the environment in which it is running.

Plesk versions

The currently supported Plesk version is:

Plesk Onyx

Lifecycle Policy:

A major version is defined as any change in the first digit(s) of the Plesk version number. For example, Plesk 12 and Plesk 11 are different major versions whereas Plesk 12.0 and 12.5 are not. From Plesk Onyx on, we will define new versions by a change in the version name as opposed to the version number.
A preview version is defined as any Plesk version, which is only available through the non-default “testing” release tier in the Plesk Installer.
Plesk will always provide software patches and accept technical support requests for the latest Plesk major version and its immediately preceding version.
Plesk does not accept technical support requests for preview versions of Plesk. Bug reports and technical questions must be submitted through the Plesk Community Forum. Feature requests must be submitted through our Plesk UserVoice.
Each major version will be fully supported for at least a period of four (4) years after release.
- Extended Support: After this 4 year period, the product will no longer be available for new purchases and will continue to receive patches only for critical issues. This will last for a period of six (6) months.
- End-of-Life: Once the Extended Support period is over, the product will stop receiving further development, and technical support requests will no longer be accepted.
In order to ensure stable operation, it is required to be on the latest update/patch within a major released version of Plesk. Preview versions must not be used in production environments.
Support for a particular instance is also dependent on using a currently supported operating system. This policy is described in the relevant section below.
Even for unsupported instances, Plesk will continue to accept technical support requests that are related to updating to a supported version or environment. Exceptions are updates from and to preview versions, since the stability of such upgrades is not guaranteed.

Plesk version lifecycle

The tables below describe when specific versions of Plesk will enter the Extended Support phase and when patches / support will no longer be available for them. If affected by one of the below dates, customers are encouraged to upgrade to a supported Plesk version:

Product	Released	Extended Support	End of Life
Plesk Onyx	October 11, 2016	October 11, 2020	April 20, 2021
Plesk 12	June 16, 2014	June 16, 2018	January 1, 2019
Plesk 11	June 13, 2012	June 13, 2016	December 13, 2016
Plesk 10	November 3, 2010	January 31, 2015	May 3, 2015
Plesk 9	December 9, 2008	December 9, 2012	June 9, 2013
Plesk 8	September 20,2006	March 1, 2012	September, 2012
Small Business Panel*	November, 2009	August 1, 2011	July, 2012
Plesk 7 and earlier	February 10, 2004	n/a	January 1, 2012

	Supported versions
	Unsupported versions

* The upgrade path for Small Business Panel customers involves a migration to Plesk 10, where these products were merged.

Currently supported OSes

Operating System	Affected Plesk Version	Vendor Termination Date
Debian 9	Plesk Onyx 17.8	June 17, 2022
Debian 8	Plesk Onyx, 12.5, 12.0	April 30, 2020
CentOS 7	Plesk Onyx, 12.5, 12.0	June 30, 2024
CentOS 6	Plesk Onyx, 12.x, 11.x, 10.x	November 30, 2020
CloudLinux 7	Plesk Onyx, 12.5	June 30, 2024
CloudLinux 6	Plesk Onyx, 12.5, 12.0	November 30, 2020
RedHat Enterprise Linux 7	Plesk Onyx, 12.5, 12.0	June 30, 2024 (end of production phase)
RedHat Enterprise Linux 6	Plesk Onyx, 12.5, 12.0	November 30, 2020
RedHat Enterprise Linux 5	Plesk 12.x, 11.x, 10.x	November 30, 2020
Ubuntu 18.04 Server LTS	Plesk Onyx 17.8	April 1, 2023
Ubuntu 16.04 Server LTS	Plesk Onyx	April 1, 2021
Ubuntu 14.04 Server LTS	Plesk Onyx, 12.5, 12.0	April 1, 2019
Windows Server 2016	Plesk Onyx	TBD Supported editions: Standard Foundation Datacenter‘Full’ and ‘Core’ modes supported for all editions
Windows Server 2012 R2	Plesk Onyx, 12.5, 12.0	January 10, 2023 Supported editions: Standard Foundation Datacenter ‘Full’ and ‘Core’ modes supported for all editions
Windows Server 2012	Plesk Onyx, 12.x, 11.x	January 10, 2023 Supported editions: Standard Foundation Datacenter‘Full’ and ‘Core’ modes supported for all editions
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1	Plesk Onyx, 12.x, 11.x, 10.x, 9.x	January 14, 2020
Windows Server 2008 SP2	8.3.0 – 12.x	January 14, 2020

Recommended versions

Unsupported OSes

Operating System	Affected Plesk Version	Vendor Termination Date
CentOS 4	7.5.0 – 10.2.x	Febuary 29, 2012
CentOS 5	Plesk 8.x-12.x	March 31, 2017
CloudLinux 5	Plesk 8.x-12.x	March 31, 2017
Debian 3.1	7.5.0 – 9.5.4	March 30, 2008
Debian 4.0	8.2.0 – 10.1.x	Febuary 15, 2010
Debian 5	9.2.3 – 10.4.x	Febuary 06, 2012
Debian 6	10.2.0 – 12.x LTS	till February 2016
Debian 7	17.0-17.5, 12.5, 12.0	till May 31, 2018
Fedora 11	9.5.0 – 9.5.4	June 25, 2010
Fedora 7	8.2.0 – 9.5.4	June 13, 2008
Fedora 8	8.4.0 – 9.5.4	January 07, 2009
Fedora Core 4	8.0.0 – 9.5.4	August 07, 2006
Fedora Core 5	8.1.0 – 9.5.4	July 02, 2007
Fedora Core 6	8.1.0 – 9.5.4	December 07, 2007
FreeBSD 6.1	8.1.0 – 9.5.4	May 31, 2008
FreeBSD 6.2	9.0.0 – 9.5.4	May 31, 2008
FreeBSD 6.3	9.0.0 – 9.5.4	January 31, 2010
openSUSE 10.2	8.4.0 – 10.1	October 31, 2009
openSUSE 10.3	8.4.0 – 10.1.x	October 31, 2009
openSUSE 11.0	9.0.0 – 10.1.x	July 26, 2010
openSUSE 11.1	9.2.1 – 10.1.x	January 14, 2011
openSUSE 11.3	10.1.0 – 10.4.x	January 15, 2012
openSUSE 11.4	10.2.0 – 11.0.x	September 15,2012
openSUSE 12.1	11.0.9 – 11.0.x	July 01, 2013
openSUSE 12.2	11.0.9 – 11.0.x	January 14,2014
openSUSE 12.3	11.x – 12.x	January 15, 2015
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4	7.5.0 – 10.2.x	Febuary 29, 2012
SUSE Linux 10.0	7.5.0 – 10.4.x	November 30, 2007
SUSE Linux 10.1	8.1.0 – 9.5.4	May 31, 2008
SUSE Linux 9.3	7.5.0 – 9.5.4	April 30, 2007
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10	8.1.0 – 9.5.x	July 01, 2013
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9	7.5.0 – 9.5.4	August 01, 2011
Ubuntu 12.04 Server LTS	11.0 – 17.x	April 28, 2017
Ubuntu 10.04 Server LTS	10.0.0 – 12.x	April 01,2015
Ubuntu 6.06 Server LTS	8.1.0 – 9.5.4	June 01, 2011
Ubuntu 7.10 Server	8.3.0 – 9.5.4	April 18, 2009
Ubuntu 8.04 Server LTS	8.6.0 – 10.4.x	April 01, 2013
Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2	8.2.0 – 10.4.x	July 13,2010
Windows Server 2003 SP1	7.5.0 – 10.4.x	April 14, 2009
Windows Server 2003 SP2	8.2.0 – 10.4.x	July 13,2010
Windows Server 2008 (w/o Svc. Pack)	8.3.0 – 9.5.4	July 12 2011
Windows Server 2008 R2**	9.3.0 – 11.0.x	April 9, 2013

**Plesk will no longer provide software patches for Plesk instances running on Windows Server 2008 R2, but will accept technical support requests for Plesk installed into Parallels Virtuozzo Containers running on this OS – till September 1st, 2013. We strongly recommend you to transfer your Plesk installation to any other supported operating system before this date. Refer to the Upgrade and Migration Guide for more details.

Migration assistance

If your Plesk version is approaching its End of Life phase or operating system is approaching its Vendor Termination Date, we recommend migrating your Plesk to the latest Plesk version and a newer supported operating system.

If you need migration instructions, advice, or if you would prefer to let Plesk professionals handle the migration for you, visit our Professional Services page.

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