VMware Tools: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for VMware Tools from Broadcom

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-09-15

What is VMware Tools?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementVMware Tools is a set of services and components that enable several features in various VMware products for better management and seamless user interactions with guest operating systems.
 

The entire lifecycle of VMware Tools

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of VMware Tools. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
VMware Tools (Broadcom) release, version and end-of-life information
XVMware Tools (Broadcom) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product VMware Tools (Broadcom)
 

Facts and figures about VMware Tools

Product
VMware Tools
Vendor
Broadcom
Latest version
13.1.5
Number of releases
16
Number of versions
59
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
43
Licence
Commercial
 
 

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