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IBM Cloud Paks come with a Red Hat OpenShift limited license where both follow slightly different lifecycle policies. This document is to explain how version compatibility should work between Cloud Pak versions and OpenShift versions.
- OpenShift minor version 4.6 and before: Each minor version is typically supported a minimum of 9 months, with two phases:
- Full Support: From GA of minor release to 1 calendar month after GA of next minor (n+1) version
- Maintenance Support: From end of full support to release of the second subsequent (n+2) minor version
- OpenShift minor version 4.7 and after: Each minor version is supported 18 months, with two phases:
- Full Support: 6 months OR 90 days after the GA of the superseding minor release, whichever is later.
- Maintenance Support: 12 months (if Full support was 6 month) OR the remaining amount of time for the accumulated Full and Maintenance support phases to be 18 months.
- Version 4.8 and following even numbers minor versions (4.10, 4.12 and beyond) will be designated as Extended Update Support (EUS) with an easier upgrade EUS releases.
- OpenShift minor version 4.6 and before: Each minor version is typically supported a minimum of 9 months, with two phases:
- ), EUS versions are even minor releases beginning with 4.8.
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