# Syncplify Server! version schedule: current, retired, and LLTS

At every ISV, and Syncplify is no exception, software development is an ever ongoing process. Every so often new versions are released, to add new features, improve the existing ones, and/or fix bugs and issues that are discovered or reported by users and customers.

When the changes are big enough, a new major version number is assigned to the release, and that's how you go from v4.x to v5.x, then to v6.x, and so on. When this happens, the old major version goes into <span style="background-color: rgb(251, 238, 184);">***Phase-Out***</span> and remains under [Limited Long-Term Support (LLTS)](https://kb.syncplify.com/books/faq-popular-topics/page/what-is-llts-limited-long-term-support) for a certain amount of time, to offer our users/customer a comfortable way to plan and execute the upgrade to the most recent major version. Then, once the LLTS period ends, the old version becomes <span style="background-color: rgb(251, 238, 184);">***Retired***</span>, and from that moment on it will receive no more support of any kind, no bug-fixes, no development, and no customer service (but if you have an active maintenance plan you'll still be able to upgrade to the then-current version and receive support for that one).

Here's a schedule of all Syncplify Server! versions' release, phase out (LLTS), and retirement dates:

<table border="1" id="bkmrk-version-release-phas" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 268.172px;"><colgroup><col style="width: 24.9383%;"></col><col style="width: 24.9383%;"></col><col style="width: 24.9383%;"></col><col style="width: 24.9383%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Version**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Release**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Phase-out (LLTS)**</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;">**Retirement**</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(22, 145, 121);">Syncplify Server! v8</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(22, 145, 121);">Jun 2026 </span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(149, 165, 166);">*no, this is the current version*</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(149, 165, 166);">*no retirement date planned yet*</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">Syncplify Server! v7</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">Oct 2025</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">June 2026</span>

</td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">Dec. 31, 2028</span>

</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">Syncplify Server! v6</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">Dec 2022</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">Oct 2025</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">Dec. 31, 2027</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Syncplify.me Server! v5</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Feb 2018</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Dec 2022</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Dec. 31, 2024</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Syncplify.me Server! v4</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Jan 2016</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Feb 2018</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Dec. 31 2020</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Syncplify.me Server! v3</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Oct 2014</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Jan 2016</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Dec. 31, 2018</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Syncplify.me Server! v2</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Mar 2014</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Oct 2014</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Dec. 31, 2016</span></td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Syncplify.me Server! v1</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Nov 2013</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Mar 2014</span></td><td style="height: 29.7969px;"><span style="color: rgb(186, 55, 42);">Dec. 31, 2015</span></td></tr></tbody></table>

Please, plan your updates and upgrades according to the schedule here above.  
Thank you!