Sonatype Sunsetting Information

Sonatype Product Development Overview 

The Sonatype Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) is designed to keep us continually improving our products and to ensure that our customers have access to our best features and functionality. This also helps us provide quality support services for our features and products.

Our product lifecycle includes four stages:

For more information about Sonatype Support services, please see Sonatype's Software Support Policy.

The table below provides details about each stage of the Sonatype PDLC:

StageAvailabilitySupportDevelopment

Lighthouse / Preview

Select customers in the Product Preview ProgramLimited to select customers in the Product Preview Program
  • Actively refining solutions based on feedback
  • Bugs are expected as part of the review process
  • Sonatype may disable functionality from the Product Preview Program without releasing it to General Availability.

General Availability

All customersFull support as outlined in our Support Policy
  • Actively adding features to the product or iterating on a feature
  • Bug fixes, support, and security updates provided

Extended Maintenance

All customersLimited support as outlined in our Support Policy with a focus on helping customers upgrade to alternatives
  • No additional features added
  • Best-effort support for critical bug fixes

Sunsetted

Unavailable to all customersSupport provides best-effort guidance to help customers adopt alternatives
  • No additional features or bug fixes
  • We may archive or remove related code or infrastructure
  • May become functionally unavailable
  • We may remove related documentation

Version and Feature Status by Product 

FAQ 

Why is Sonatype sunsetting products?

Sonatype's mission is to help you develop software fearlessly. An essential part of that mission is regularly examining our solutions to ensure our customers' deployments have dependable, secure, and well-supported capabilities. 

Eventually, some of our products will reach the end of their useful life. The Sonatype product development lifecycle (PDLC) is designed to keep us continually improving our products, ensuring that our customers have access to our best features and functionality, and helping us provide quality support services for our features and products.

I am running a sunset version of a product, can I still receive support?

Yes, Support will provide best-effort guidance to help customers adopt suggested alternatives or an upgrade path. 

We encourage all our customers to be on supported versions of our products so that you can fully leverage bug fixes and product investment towards enhanced features and capabilities.

Who can receive support in the Extended Maintenance phase?

Support for releases in Extended Maintenance is available to all customers.

Where can I find the timeline or more details on the versions/features being sunset?

See the version and feature status by product section above.