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:
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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:
Stage | Availability | Support | Development |
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Lighthouse / Preview | Select customers in the Product Preview Program | Limited to select customers in the Product Preview Program |
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General Availability | All customers | Full support as outlined in our Support Policy |
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Extended Maintenance | All customers | Limited support as outlined in our Support Policy with a focus on helping customers upgrade to alternatives |
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Sunsetted | Unavailable to all customers | Support provides best-effort guidance to help customers adopt alternatives |
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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.
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.
Support for releases in Extended Maintenance is available to all customers.
See the version and feature status by product section.