Platform support and compatibility

Aerospike provides Maintenance and Support for 2 years (24 months) effective immediately upon the release of a new Generally Available (GA) version of Aerospike Database, starting with 6.3. Maintenance and Support schedules for releases prior to 6.3 are described in the following table.

Supported Aerospike Database releases

8.0	7.2	7.1	7.0	6.4	6.3	6.1 LTS
General availability	January 22, 2025	October 7, 2024	May 15, 2024	November 15, 2023	August 3, 2023	March 30, 2023
Support end date	January 21, 2027	October 6, 2026	May 14, 2026	November 14, 2025	August 2, 2025	March 29, 2025

Maintenance and Support for Aerospike Database 6.2 ended on March 2, 2024. See Upgrading for instructions on moving to a later version.

Supported Linux versions

The following table lists the supported operating system (OS) versions for each Aerospike Database release. Aerospike will provide updated distributions in the form of patch releases to address security vulnerabilities in the underlying supported OS version, as long as the OS itself is still actively supported.

Version	8.0	7.2	7.1	7.0	6.4	6.3	6.1
RHEL	91, 8	9 1, 8	9 1, 8	9 1, 8	9 1, 8, 7 2	9 1, 8, 7 2	8, 7 2
Ubuntu	24.04 LTS 22.04 20.04	24.04 LTS 22.04 20.04	22.04 20.04	22.04 20.04	22.04 20.04	22.04 20.04	20.04 18.04
Debian	12, 11	12, 11	12, 11	12, 11	12, 11, 10 (x86_64 only) 3	11, 10 (x86_64 only) 3	11, 10, 9
Amazon Linux	AL2023	AL2023	AL2023	AL2023	AL2023, AL2	AL2	AL2

1. Must have a kernel supporting 4K memory pages.
2. RHEL 7 reached its End of Support (EOS) on June 30, 2024. Aerospike no longer produces el7 RPMs for Aerospike Database versions 6.1, 6.3 and 6.4. See link to KB for more information.
3. Aerospike Database 6.3 or later supports x86_64 and aarch64 unless specifically noted otherwise for other operating systems, such as Debian 10.

Client support

For information about client support, see the Client Matrix.