On September 29, 2022 , two significant updates to Cisco Software Support will take effect:
With the new global update to the End of Life policy, every embedded OS software release version will now receive support for three (3) years from the End of Sales (EOS) date, and each application software release version will receive support for two (2) years from the EOS date.
On the final extended maintenance OS release through the hardware’s last day of support, Cisco engineering may support critical security vulnerabilities. Since this information varies depending on the product, read more on individual products .
