# Sonatype Sunsetting Information

## Sonatype Product Development Overview

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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**Note**  
For more information about Sonatype Support services, please see [Sonatype's Software Support Policy](/content/usage/software-support-policy/index.html).

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                                                               | - Actively refining solutions based on feedback<br>  <br>- Bugs are expected as part of the review process<br>  <br>- Sonatype may disable functionality from the Product Preview Program without releasing it to General Availability. |
| ##### General Availability  | All customers                                         | Full support as outlined in our [Support Policy](/content/usage/software-support-policy/index.html)                | - Actively adding features to the product or iterating on a feature<br>  <br>- Bug fixes, support, and security updates provided                                   |
| ##### Extended Maintenance  | All customers                                         | Limited support as outlined in our [Support Policy](/content/usage/software-support-policy/index.html) with a focus on helping customers upgrade to alternatives | - No additional features added<br>  <br>- Best-effort support for critical bug fixes                                                                                |
| ##### Sunsetted            | Unavailable to all customers                           | Support provides best-effort guidance to help customers adopt alternatives                                                 | - No additional features or bug fixes<br>  <br>- We may archive or remove related code or infrastructure<br>  <br>- May become functionally unavailable<br>  <br>- We may remove related documentation       |

## Version and Feature Status by Product

### Sonatype Nexus Repository

[Sonatype Nexus Repository 3 Versions Status](https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-versions-status.html "Sonatype Nexus Repository 3 Versions Status")  
[Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 Sunsetting Information](https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-2-sunsetting-information.html "Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 Sunsetting Information")  
[Sonatype Nexus Repository 3 Feature Status](https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-feature-status.html "Nexus Repository 3 Feature Status")

### Sonatype IQ Server

[Sonatype IQ Server Versions Status](https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-iq-server-versions-status.html "Sonatype IQ Server Versions Status")  
[Sonatype Integration Versions Status](https://help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-integration-versions-status.html "Sonatype Integrations Version Status")

## FAQ

### Why is Sonatype sunsetting products?

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.

### I am running a sunset version of a product, can I still receive support?

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.

### Who can receive support in the Extended Maintenance phase?

Support for releases in Extended Maintenance is available to all customers.

### Where can I find the timeline or more details on the versions/features being sunsetted?

See the version and feature status by product section.