# Release numbering and end of life

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/release-numbering-and-end-of-life/182427>\
**Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\
**Created:** [May 23, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/release-numbering-and-end-of-life/182427 "2019-05-23T12:04:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![granier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@granier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/granier)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/release-numbering-and-end-of-life/182427/1 "2019-05-23T12:04:57Z")

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This is not a question, but after almost ten mails with an Elastic employee, i think that could be usefull to other people.

The start of the mails was to understand what mean end of live and end of support.

What i concluded is :

- The duration between two GA is almost one year , instead of 1,5 year as it is written on web site

- Minor version changes the second digit and is increased for new features, as it is explained on web site ( [https://www.elastic.co/fr/support/eol](https://www.elastic.co/fr/support/eol) )

- Debug version changes the third digit and is increased for debug, as it is explained on web site

- End of Life means that no more minor version is published

- End of support means that no more debug version is published

- After a GA, until the release of the GA+1, minor versions are published. In other words until the end of life, minor versions are published. In other words, during one year after the GA minor versions are published.

- For example, the 7.0.0 is released 2019/04, 7.X are published until the release of 8.0.0 id 2020/04 ( 2019/10+1).

- Debug versions of the last minor are published until the end of support, that's the release of the GA+2.

- The last debug version of a 7.X could be published until the release of the 9.0.0 (7+2): 2021/04 (one year after the 8.0.0).

I hoppe that's can help.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/release-numbering-and-end-of-life/182427/2 "2019-05-23T12:37:04Z")

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> [@granier](#):
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> The duration between two GA is almost one year , instead of 1,5 year as it is written on web site

- 6.0.0 happened on November 14, 2017
- 7.0.0 happened on April 10, 2019

> For example, the 7.0.0 is released 2019/10, 7.X are published until the release of 8.0.0 id 2020/10 ( 2019/10+1).

So I'd not say that the next GA is happening exactly one year after.

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**Author:** ![granier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@granier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/granier)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/release-numbering-and-end-of-life/182427/3 "2019-05-23T12:54:39Z")

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What i understood is:

- on web site it is written 1,5 year
- irl, it is around one year

but to compute date, it is easier to use exact number, it is "hard" to compute a date like 10/2020+one year but not exactly one year ...

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/release-numbering-and-end-of-life/182427/4 "2019-06-20T12:54:43Z")

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