Important
Sophos is retiring this product on 20 July 2023. For product retirement details, see our retirement calendar.
Sophos continues to support fixed versions in Sophos Enterprise Console (SEC) for Advanced license holders. This article lists the dates for the end of support and retirement of Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV) fixed packages along with later versions and their retirement dates. For best protection, Sophos recommends that you use the Preview or Recommended versions.
Applies to the following Sophos products and versions:
- Sophos Endpoint Security and Control
Availability
Fixed Extended versions will be identified and made available for the start of January, May, and September. These will be available for nine months in total, providing an overlap of five months with the next Fixed Extended version, and a one month overlap with the next Fixed Extended version after that.
If the subscription is not updated before support ends, this will automatically be subscribed to a newer Fixed Extended package.
- The January to September package will be automatically subscribed to the September to May package.
- The May to January package will be automatically subscribed to the January to September package.
- The September to May package will be automatically subscribed to the May to January package.
Sophos Anti-Virus: Version release dates and the tables in this article provide more information on the availability of Fixed Extended versions.
Use these versions if you want to remain on a version that changes less frequently or if you need to roll out over a prolonged period.
Note
For the best protection, Sophos recommends to use the Preview or Recommended version. Sophos reserves the right to update subscriptions at short or no notice where major issues or vulnerabilities have been identified. We will endeavor to notify customers in advance but this may not always be possible due to the fast-moving nature of security and protection technologies and the need to release updated protection as quickly as possible.
Please be aware that there are no fixed versions of Exploit Prevention. When a new version of Exploit Prevention is released, it will change across all endpoints it is installed on, regardless of the subscription in use (Preview, Recommended, Previous Recommended, and all of the extended versions).
