AOS: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for AOS from Nutanix

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-06

What is AOS?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementAcropolis Operating System (AOS) is an operating system for the Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure platform. AOS contains data services for data protection, space efficiency, scalability, automated data tiering and security. AOS comes with a built-in hypervisor called Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV).
 

The entire lifecycle of AOS

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

What is the AOS release strategy?

In the Enterprise Cloud software market, to cater to different customer environment needs, there are two types of releases: * Short Term Support (STS) releases, which have new features, and also provide a regular upgrade path (3 to 6 months) OR * Long Term Support (LTS) releases, which are maintained for a longer duration (12 to 15 months) and provide primarily bug fixes for an extended period of time on a particular release family.

Facts and figures about AOS

Product
AOS
Vendor
Nutanix
Latest version
7.5.0.6
Number of releases
23
Number of versions
230
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
0
 
 

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