SCS Computing Facilities Support Lifecycle Guide As of: 12 Feb 2020

Latest SCS Support Vendor Start of SCS End of SCS Latest Vendor
Operating System
Update Status Release Date Support Support EOL Date

Windows 10 1809 Active (Default) 29 Jul 2015 15 Jun 2016 14 Oct 2025 14 Oct 2025
Windows Desktop

Windows 8 8.1 Phasing Out 26 Oct 2012 1 Jan 2016 14 Jun 2016 10 Jan 2023

Windows 7 SP1 EOL 22 Oct 2009 1 Aug 2010 14 Jan 2020 14 Jan 2020

Windows Vista SP2 EOL 30 Jan 2007 Feb 2007 11 Apr 2017 11 Apr 2017

Windows XP SP3 EOL 25 Oct 2001 1 Aug 2002 8 Apr 2014 8 Apr 2014

Windows Server 2016 Active (Default) 26 Sep 2016 1 Jan 2017 11 Jan 2027 11 Jan 2027
Windows Server

Windows Server 2012 R2 Phasing Out 4 Sep 2012 Oct 2012 10 Oct 2023 10 Oct 2023

Windows Server 2008 R2 EOL 27 Feb 2008 1 Mar 2008 14 Jan 2020 14 Jan 2020

Windows Server 2003 R2 EOL 24 Apr 2003 1 May 2003 14 Jul 2015 14 Jul 2015

macOS Catalina 10.15 Active (Default) 7 Oct 2019 16 Dec 2019 TBD Nov 2022

~2021
macOS Mojave 10.14 Active 24 Sep 2018 3 Dec 2018 Nov 2021
see note *
OS X / macOS

~2020
macOS High Sierra 10.13 Containment 25 Sep 2017 5 Mar 2018 Nov 2020
see note *

~2019
macOS Sierra 10.12 Phasing Out 20 Sep 2016 1 Jan 2017 Nov 2019
see note *

OS X El Capitan 10.11 EOL 30 Sep 2015 Jun 2016 Oct 2019 Sep 2018

~2017
OS X Yosemite 10.10 EOL 16 Oct 2014 8 Jan 2015 25 Sep 2017
see note *

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 18.04 26 Apr 2018 18 Dec 2018 Apr 2023 Apr 2023
Active (Default)
"Bionic Beaver"
Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 16.04 Active 21 Apr 2016 1 Feb 2017 Apr 2021 Apr 2021
"Xenial Xerus"

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 14.04 EOL 17 Apr 2014 23 Sep 2014 Sep 2019 Apr 2019
"Trusty Tahr"

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 12.04 EOL 23 Apr 2012 6 Sep 2012 Apr 2017 Apr 2017
"Precise Pangolin"

Fedora 14 14 2 Nov 2010 Oct 2011 12 Sep 2018 Dec 2011

64-bit
Linux

Fedora 10 10 EOL 25 Nov 2008 Jul 2009 Sep 2016 Dec 2009
Unix

Solaris 10 10 EOL 31 Jan 2005 1 Sep 2008 Nov 2019 Jan 2021
 Latest SCS Support Vendor Start of SCS End of SCS Latest Vendor
Operating System
Update Status Release Date Support Support EOL Date

CentOS 7 7 Active (Default) 20 Jun 2014 1 Jan 2018 30 Jun 2024 30 Jun 2024
Clusters

CentOS 6 6 Active 12 Jul 2011 Apr 2012 30 Nov 2020 30 Nov 2020

* Note: Apple does not publish official EOL dates, but typically provides security updates for the current release of macOS, as well as the previous two releases.