Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 Version Status
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The Sonatype Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), including definitions of each stage, is fully defined in Sonatype Sunsetting Information.
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Sonatype will officially sunset its Nexus Repository 2 product on June 30, 2025. From this sunset date, Sonatype will no longer release any additional features or bug fixes for Nexus Repository 2.
If you are using Nexus Repository 2, you should migrate to Sonatype Nexus Repository 3 as soon as possible.
For full details, see Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 Sunsetting Information.
Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 Status by Version
The table below lists the last two major Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 releases and provides their end-of-extended maintenance and sunset dates. All prior versions released are considered sunsetted.
Sonatype Nexus Repository Version | Status | Initial Release Date | Sunset Date |
2.15.0 - 2.15.1 | Extended Maintenance | March 23, 2022 (2.15.1) March 17, 2022 (2.15.0) | June 30, 2025 |
2.14.0 - 2.14.21 | Extended Maintenance | December 20, 2021 (2.14.21) December 30, 2020 (2.14.20) October 01, 2020 (2.14.19) May 19, 2020 (2.14.18) April 16, 2020 (2.14.17) January 17, 2020 (2.14.16) October 15, 2019 (2.14.15) August 09, 2019 (2.14.14) April 24, 2019 (2.14.13) March 11, 2019 (2.14.12) November 21, 2018 (2.14.11) September 13, 2018 (2.14.10) July 03, 2018 (2.14.9) February 28, 2018 (2.14.8) February 12, 2018 (2.14.7) January 29, 2018 (2.14.6) August 03, 2017 (2.14.5) March 12, 2017 (2.14.4) February 16, 2017 (2.14.3) December 19, 2016 (2.14.2) October 31, 2016 (2.14.1) September 20, 2016 (2.14.0) | June 30, 2025 |
2.13.0 and below | Sunsetted | April 18, 2016 (2.13.0) March 11, 2016 (2.12.1) December 23, 2015 (2.12.0) July 15, 2015 (2.11.4) May 25, 2015 (2.11.3) February 23, 2015 (2.11.2) December 18, 2014 (2.11.1) November 24, 2014 (2.11.0) October 01, 2014 (2.10.0) | Oct 17, 2017 |
FAQ
Why are you sunsetting versions of Sonatype Nexus Repository 2?
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 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.
In line with that, we will be sunsetting the product versions that are out of support per Sonatype’s support policy.
I am running a sunset version of Sonatype Nexus Repository 2, 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 so that bug fixes and product investment towards enhanced features and capabilities are fully leveraged.
Is there a direct upgrade path from older versions to the latest stable version?
Yes, you can upgrade your Nexus Repository from the older version to a newer, supported version. We recommend that youplan an upgrade to the latest supported version.
Please refer to our guidelines as described in the Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 upgrade documentation. Or, if you are ready to upgrade to Sonatype Nexus Repository 3, see our Upgrading from Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 to 3 help documentation.
When will all versions of Nexus Repository 2 be sunset?
Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 is a supported product. At some point in the future, we will announce a version 2 sunset. We will provide proactive communications and work with our customers to help them upgrade.