---
title: "Kea End-of-Life Dates"
slug: "kea-end-of-life-dates"
description: "This table shows the dates when ISC officially ended support for older Kea releases."
tags: ["kea dhcp"]
updated: 2026-06-17T21:22:58Z
published: 2026-06-17T21:22:58Z
canonical: "kb.isc.org/kea-end-of-life-dates"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Kea End-of-Life Dates

The following table shows the dates when ISC officially ended support for these Kea releases.

ISC's intended policy is to support the two most recent stable branches of Kea.  

| Branch | End-of-Life |
| --- | --- |
2.6.0 | June 2026 On release of 3.2.0
2.4.0 | August 2026 On release of 2.8.0
2.3.0 | May 2023
2.2.0 | August 2024 On release of 2.6.0
2.1.0 | July 2022
2.0.0 | August 2023 On release of 2.4.0
1.9.0 | September 2021
1.8.0 | July 2022
1.7.0 | August 2020
1.6.0 | September 2021
1.5.0 | August 2020
1.3.0 | December 2018
1.2.0	| June 2018
1.1.0	| December 2017
1.0.0	| June 2017
0.9.2-P1	|March 2017
0.9.1	| June 2016

These as well as current versions of Kea can be found on [ftp.isc.org](https://ftp.isc.org/isc/kea/).

:::(INFO) (Development releases)
Starting with the Kea 1.7 release, all Kea versions with an odd minor version number are development releases, and become EOL as soon as the following stable release is cut.

## Related

- [ISC's Software Support Policy and Version Numbering](/aa-00896.md)