#end-of-support

#end-of-support

While Samsung's latest flagships receive seven years of security updates (and seven major Android OS updates), that hasn't always been the case. And so, five years after their release, the Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra are no longer going to receive any updates from this point forward. The trio launched in January of 2021, and they were each promised to receive four major Android updates and five years of security patches.

Microsoft has released the Patch Tuesday updates for November 2025. For home users of Windows 11 23H2, this also means the end of support. The company is urging users to switch to version 25H2. Microsoft previously announced that Windows 11 23H2 Home and Pro would no longer be supported as of November 11, 2025. Enterprise and Education editions will continue to receive updates until November 2026.

ESU only provides security patches. It is a paid service that extends "critical" and "important" security updates for Windows 10 for a maximum of three years, but does not include technical support, non-security fixes or new features. Additionally, customers experiencing technical issues with Windows 10 that are unrelated to the ESU updates will be advised to upgrade to Windows 11. ESU does not provide complete patching, as vulnerabilities rated as "moderate" or "low" will not be addressed.

Percona, a provider of open source database support services and Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), has warned that more than half its MySQL instances remain on MySQL 8.0, support for which ends on April 30, 2026. Peter Zaitsev, Percona co-founder, told The Register: "Every piece of complex software has bugs which may not have been found yet. Some of those bugs are also security bugs.

October 2, 2025, marks the end of general support for VMware's version 7. After that, Broadcom won't release any new security patches or fixes, and you won't be able to log vendor support tickets for these versions. You'll still have access to previously published updates under the self-service policy (although this could change in time, but there won't be anything new coming.

The AWS Tools for PowerShell v4.x will reach end-of-support on June 1, 2026, where it will only receive critical bug fixes and security updates.