Lifecycle guide for Moodle from Moodle

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

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📅 Last update on 2025-12-12

What is Moodle?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Moodle is used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom and other online learning schemes in schools, universities, workplaces and other sectors. It can be used to create custom websites with online courses and allows for community-sourced plugins.

The entire lifecycle of Moodle

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Moodle. 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.

Moodle (Moodle) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Moodle (Moodle)

What is the Moodle release strategy?

From Moodle 2.6 onwards, the end of support, both general and security, happens the second Monday of May and November, observing the 12, 18... month periods, no matter if the major release date was moved or not.