AIX: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for AIX from IBM

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-09

What is AIX?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementAIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.
 

The entire lifecycle of AIX

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

What is the AIX release strategy?

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Facts and figures about AIX

Product
AIX
Vendor
IBM
Latest version
7300-04-00
Number of releases
12
Number of versions
80
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
0
Licence
Proprietary
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX
 
 

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