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

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-08-16

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 (VMware) release, version and end-of-life information
XVMware Tools (VMware) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product VMware Tools (VMware)
 

Facts and figures about VMware Tools

Product VMware Tools
Vendor VMware
Latest version 13.1.0
Number of releases 15
Number of versions 56
Number of unstable versions 0
Number of versions affected by CVE 41
Licence Commercial
 
 

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