The WordPress stack latest versions & end-of-life dates
Everything a self-hosted WordPress site sits on: WordPress itself, PHP, the database, the web server, caching and the operating system underneath. Most WordPress breakage after an upgrade comes from one of these moving, so it helps to see them side by side.
13 fully supported
Next deadlines
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Oct 22
2026 OpenSSL 3.4 end of life in 1 week -
Nov 1
2026 OpenSSL 3.6 end of life in 3 weeks -
Dec 1
2026 Redis 8.0 end of life in 1 month -
Dec 31
2026 Composer 2.2 LTS end of life in 2 months -
Dec 31
2026 PHP 8.2 end of life in 2 months -
Apr 1
2027 Redis 6.2 end of life in 5 months -
Apr 30
2027 Node.js 22 LTS end of life in 6 months -
May 14
2027 OpenSSL 4.0 end of life in 7 months
All 14 at a glance
| Product | Latest | Released | Newest branch | Next end of life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | 7.1.3 | Oct 6, 2026 | Supported | — |
| PHP | 8.5.11 | Sep 24, 2026 | Active Support | 8.2 · Dec 31, 2026 in 2 months |
| MySQL | 9.7.2 | Jul 28, 2026 | Premier Support | 8.4 (LTS) · Apr 30, 2032 in 5 years |
| MariaDB | 13.0.2 | Sep 14, 2026 | Supported | 13.0 · Dec 31, 2026 in 2 months |
| nginx | 1.31.6 | Sep 15, 2026 | Supported | — |
| Apache HTTP Server | 2.4.69 | Oct 1, 2026 | Supported | — |
| Caddy | 2.11.7 | Oct 3, 2026 | GitHub releases | — |
| Redis | 8.10.2 | Sep 17, 2026 | Supported | 8.0 · Dec 1, 2026 in 1 month |
| Memcached | 1.6.45 | Jul 9, 2026 | Supported | — |
| Composer | 2.10.3 | Aug 27, 2026 | Supported | 2.2 (LTS) · Dec 31, 2026 in 2 months |
| Node.js | 26.11.1 | Oct 8, 2026 | Active Support | 22 (LTS) · Apr 30, 2027 in 6 months |
| OpenSSL | 4.0.3 | Sep 29, 2026 | Supported | 3.4 · Oct 22, 2026 in 1 week |
| Ubuntu | 26.04.1 | Aug 27, 2026 | Hardware & Maintenance | 22.04 'Jammy Jellyfish' (LTS) · Jun 1, 2027 in 7 months |
| Debian | 13.7 | Sep 12, 2026 | Debian Security Support | 12 (Bookworm) · Jun 30, 2028 in 1 year |
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