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Software end-of-life schedule

As Acquia continues to add new products, services, and to upgrade technologies, we will enforce end-of-life deadlines requiring action on your part. This page lists anticipated product, service, and technology end-of-life dates for Acquia’s products.

Upgrade actions

Upgrade actions include:

  • Self-service - Customer must conduct the necessary action to upgrade.
  • Scheduled - Acquia will schedule, notify, and conduct the necessary action to upgrade.
  • Product/Feature retirement - The product or feature will cease to be available on the date indicated, regardless of any action by the customer.
Product Upgrade Action Non-production Production
CKEditor 4 Self-service June, 2023 June, 2023
PHP 7.4 LTS (Gratis) Self-service October 2, 2023 October 2, 2023
PHP 8.0 Self-service October 2, 2023 October 2, 2023
Drupal 7.x Self-service November 1, 2023 November 1, 2023
Drupal 9.x Self-service November 1, 2023 November 1, 2023
PHP 8.1 Self-service October 1, 2024 October 1, 2024
PHP 7.4 LTS Self-service April, 2025 April, 2025

Important

End-of-life process completion list

The following products and features have completed their end-of-life process, and are no longer supported by Acquia:

Product Upgrade Action Non-production Production
Node.js 14.x Self-service April 20, 2023 April 20, 2023
Acquia Connector module 3.x Self-service March 31, 2023 March 31, 2023
Acquia Cloud API v1 (final notification) Scheduled September 19, 2022 September 19, 2022
Node.js v12.x Self-service April 30, 2022 April 30, 2022
OAuth1 Self-service April 4, 2022 April 4, 2022
Insight Score Self-service March 15, 2022 March 15, 2022
Legacy Email Self-service March 1, 2022 March 1, 2022
Acquia Search with Solr 3/4 Self-service March 1, 2022 March 1, 2022
Uptime Self-service February 1, 2022 February 1, 2022
Acquia Lightning Self-service November 2, 2021 November 2, 2021
Drupal 8.x Self-service November 2, 2021 November 2, 2021
PHP 7.3 Self-service October 4, 2021 October 4, 2021
Campaign Studio Legacy Email Builder and Landing Page Builder Self-service September 30, 2021 September 30, 2021
Node.js v6, 8, and 10 Self-service September 20, 2021 September 20, 2021
Acquia Personalization v3 Self-service September 10, 2021 September 10, 2021
Acquia Dev Desktop 2 Scheduled June 30, 2021 June 30, 2021
Ruby 2.5 Self-service May 24, 2021 May 24, 2021
Customer Data Platform v5 Scheduled March 31, 2021 March 31, 2021
Dev Studio CLI Scheduled March 30, 2021 March 30, 2021
Journey Scheduled March 29, 2021 March 29, 2021
MySQL 5.6 Scheduled February 1, 2021 February 1, 2021
PHP 7.2 Self-service October 1, 2020 October 1, 2020
Acquia Cloud API v1 (first notification) Scheduled July 1, 2020 July 1, 2020
HMAC authentication (Acquia Cloud API v2) Scheduled July 1, 2020 July 1, 2020
BLT 10.x Self-service N/A May 1, 2020
Acquia Dev Desktop 1 Self-service March 7, 2020 March 7, 2020
BLT 9.2.x Self-service N/A December 1, 2019
PHP 7.1 Self-service October 1, 2019 October 1, 2019
BLT 9.x Self-service N/A May 1, 2019
Acquia-managed shared SSL certificates Self-service April 19, 2019 April 19, 2019
Drush 5, 6, 7 Scheduled January 2, 2019 January 2, 2019
PHP 5.6: End-of-life announced September 30, 2018 Self-service September 30, 2018 September 30, 2018
Varnish® 4 Scheduled June 30, 2018 June 30, 2018
Mollom: End-of-life announced April 13, 2017 Product retirement N/A April 2, 2018
Apache Subversion (SVN): End-of-life announced January 31, 2017 Self-service December 1, 2017 December 1, 2017
PHP 7.0: End-of-life announced September 9, 2017 Self-service October 16, 2017 October 16, 2017
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise): Formal retirement announced April 17, 2017 Scheduled Q2 2017 Q3 2017
Varnish 3: Retirement announced December, 2016 Scheduled Q4 2016 April 10, 2017
Percona MySQL 5.5: Retirement announced February 1, 2017 Scheduled Q1 2017 Q2 2017
Drupal 6: Retirement announced December 9, 2015 Self-service February 28, 2017 February 28, 2017
Drupal Gardens: End-of-life announced June 6, 2016 Product retirement N/A August 1, 2016
PHP 5.5: Retirement plan announced December 14, 2015 Self-service Updated version available Updated version available
PHP 5.5: Retirement plan announced December 14, 2015 Scheduled May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016
authorized_keys2 file: Retirement plan announced August 2015 Feature retirement 1.87 Acquia Cloud Release 1.87 Acquia Cloud Release
Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) ciphersuites: Retirement announced July 7, 2015 Scheduled 1.86 Acquia Cloud Release 1.86 Acquia Cloud Release
PHP 5.2.x: Retirement plan announced January, 2015 Self-service Updated version available Updated version available
PHP 5.2.x: Retirement plan announced January, 2015 Scheduled September 1, 2015 September 1, 2015
PHP 5.3.x: Retirement plan announced January, 2015 Self-service Updated version available Updated version available
PHP 5.3.x: Retirement plan announced January, 2015 Scheduled September 1, 2015 September 1, 2015
Mollom CMP: Retirement plan announced June, 2015 Feature retirement N/A Feature will be retired October 1, 2015
Acquia Cloud legacy contacts system: Retirement plan announced November 13, 2014 Self-service Until November 30, 2014 Until November 30, 2014
Acquia Cloud legacy contacts system: Retirement plan announced November 13, 2014 Scheduled December 1, 2014 December 1, 2014
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for Acquia Cloud Professional: Retirement plan announced December 1, 2014 Self-service Until March 2, 2015 Until March 2, 2015
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for Acquia Cloud Professional: Retirement plan announced December 1, 2014 Scheduled March 2, 2015 March 2, 2015
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for Acquia Cloud Enterprise: Retirement plan announced December 1, 2014 Self-service N/A N/A
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for Acquia Cloud Enterprise: Retirement plan announced December 1, 2014 Scheduled February 2-16, 2015 March 2, 2015 - April 3, 2015
Drupal Gardens mobile app: Retirement plan announced May 11, 2015 Scheduled N/A June 29, 2015

The information contained herein is subject to change without notice and is not warranted to be error-free. If you encounter any errors, contact Acquia Support.