Last updated: February 2010

This matrix is based on Zeus' Software Lifecycle and Support Policy; information on Zeus' product renaming (ZXTM / Zeus Traffic Manager).

Software Support Matrix

Definitions

• Active Current

  The most recent product version is in the ‘active current’ state. Any bugs that have customer impact and any security vulnerabilities will be resolved using release revisions.

• Active Superseded

  A product version falls into the ‘active superseded’ state when a more recent version becomes available. The superseded version then remains in this state for 2 years. Zeus will issue release revisions as necessary to address bugs with widespread customer impact and any exploitable security vulnerabilities.

• Legacy Supported

  A superseded version falls into the ‘legacy supported’ state when the 2 year period expires. It will remain in the ‘legacy supported’ state until Zeus gives 6 months’ notice that it is to be end-of-lifed.

  Zeus will provide product support for this version. Except in exceptional circumstances, release revisions will not be issued and customers will be required to upgrade to an active version in order to receive bug and vulnerability fixes.

• End-of-life

  Zeus will provide product support for customers who wish to upgrade an end-of-life version to a supported or active version. Zeus will provide limited support for other product issues on a discretionary basis for end-of-lifed versions.

For more details, refer to Zeus' Software Lifecycle and Support Policy.

End-of-life announcements - History

• February 2010: Support for FreeBSD 6 will cease on 30th November 2010 in line with the FreeBSD Security EoL announcement.

• February 2010: ZXTM 2.0, 3.0, 3.1: will be end-of-lifed on 20th October 2010.

• February 2010: Zeus Web Server 4.0, 4.1, 4.2: will be end-of-lifed on 20th October 2010.

• January 2006: Zeus Web Server 3.4: will be end-of-lifed on 31st Jul 2006.

• January 2006: Zisp (all versions): will be end-of-lifed on 31st Jul 2006

• June 2006: ZWS: After 31st January 2007, Zeus will no longer provide product revisions for FreeBSD4, IRIX and HP-UX PA-RISC 10.20.

• September 2006: ZXTM: After 31st January 2007, Zeus will no longer provide product revisions for FreeBSD4.

• December 2007: ZWS: After 10th June 2008, Zeus will no longer provide product revisions for AIX, Tru64, MacOSX, Solaris 8 (x86) and Itanium platforms.
  ZWS and ZXTM: FreeBSD 5 will be end-of-lifed 30 May 2008 in line with the FreeBSD Security EoL announcement.

Supported Platforms

For a list of platforms supported by each release, please refer to the release notes.

Product Renaming

In October 2009, many Zeus products were renamed as follows:

• Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) was renamed to Zeus Traffic Manager
• ZXTM Load Balancer was renamed to Zeus Load Balancer
• ZXTM Global Load Balancer was renamed to Zeus Global Load Balancer

Support for ZXTM-named products continues uninterrupted.

Owen Garrett [Zeus Dev Team] 30 March 2009