Grafana 7 reached EOL after Grafana 9 was released?

[witchcraze]

From these topics, I wonder Grafana 7.x series might be EOL.
I want to know wheather Grafana 7.x is EOL and no more security patch will be released.

Grafana version lifecycle?

welcome to the forum, @d33tah this is getting formalized as we speak. In the meantime, I believe that our general policy is to provide support for one major version (7) below the current version (8). So Grafana 6 is effectively EOL now. Does that help? G7 should still get critical updates now having said that, G8 is a quantum leap forward from G7, and you can’t use the new, rebuilt alerting platform unless you are running 8. So, given the new features and breaking changes, I generall…

Support policy for previous releases

@ramshazar I’ve heard from the Engineering org that they will support the current version n and one previous version n - 1. So right now, they will support Grafana 8 and 7. Those using Grafana 6 or earlier will be advised to upgrade to 7

[mattabrams]

@witchcraze

I want to know wheather Grafana 7.x is EOL and no more security patch will be released.

I believe this is true.

[witchcraze]

Thank you for your confirmation.

EOL of 7.x series will also mean EOL of “Apache 2.0 Grafana”.
I think this is important topic.