Azul Payara Product Lifecycle and End-of-Life Policy

Azul provides a long, predictable software lifecycle for Azul Payara Server and Azul Payara Micro. The lifecycle lets you plan deployments, reduce the change required at each major release, and keep mission-critical systems stable without upgrading frequently.

Azul Payara Product Lifecycle and JDK Support Roadmap

Phase	What it includes
Full Support	Monthly releases, new features, platform certifications, backported fixes, hot fixes, security fixes, JDK support through Azul
Extended Support	Security fixes, fixes on request, JDK support through Azul. No new features
Lifetime Support	Critical security fixes and selected bug fixes backported to a shared release, JDK support through Azul. Contracted, renewed annually, reviewed yearly with one year’s notice

Azul Payara version	Jakarta EE	Java SE	MicroProfile	Full Support from	Extended Support from	End of Life
7	11	21, 25	6.1	GA May 2026 (current)	per policy	per policy
6	10	11, 17, 21	6.1	Q1 2023	Q3 2028	Q3 2030
5	8 (javax)	8, 11, 17, 21	4.1	Q1 2018	Q2 2027	Q2 2029
4	Java EE 7	7, 8	1.2	Q3 2014	Q3 2022	Q2 2025 (Lifetime Support from Q2 2025)

JDK (Azul Core)	Supported through
JDK 8	31 Dec 2030
JDK 11	31 Jan 2032
JDK 17	30 Sep 2029
JDK 21	30 Sep 2031
JDK 25	20 Sept 2033

Azul Payara 4: Lifetime Support

Azul Payara 4 reached end of standard life in Q2 2025. From Q2 2025 it is available under Lifetime Support, a contracted, annually renewable service that keeps mission-critical Azul Payara 4 systems patched for critical security issues and selected bugs. Lifetime Support runs while the corresponding Java version is supported; Azul Core for JDK 8 is supported to 31 December 2030. Plan a migration to Azul Payara 5 (same javax namespace, no namespace rewrite) or to Azul Payara 6 or 7 on the jakarta namespace. Azul Payara Accelerator and Migration & Project Support can scope and run the move.

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