Logstash: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Logstash from Elastic

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-16

What is Logstash?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementLogstash is part of the Elastic Stack along with Beats, Elasticsearch and Kibana. Logstash is a server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to your favorite "stash." (Ours is Elasticsearch, naturally.). Logstash has over 200 plugins, and you can write your own very easily as well.
 

The entire lifecycle of Logstash

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Logstash. 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.
Logstash (Elastic) release, version and end-of-life information
XLogstash (Elastic) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Logstash (Elastic)
 

What is the Logstash release strategy?

Elastic Stack product releases follow Semantic Versioning. Elastic provides maintenance for each major release series for the longest of 30 months after the GA date of the major release or 18 months after the GA date of the subsequent major release.

Facts and figures about Logstash

Product
Logstash
Vendor
Elastic
Latest version
9.3.3
Number of releases
7
Number of versions
413
Number of unstable versions
42
Number of versions affected by CVE
184
Licence
Apache 2.0, an Apache compatible license, or the Elastic License
Licence details
https://github.com/elastic/logstash/blob/main/LICENSE.txt
 
 

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