Support Policy

Tanzu Spring provides support for the following Open Source Software (OSS): Spring, OpenJDK™, and Apache Tomcat®.

Spring OSS Support Lifecycle

• All project support dates are mapped to the version of Spring Boot that either manages it or it depends upon (the support dates for a given project will match those of the Spring Boot version it’s mapped to).
• For Spring Boot:
  • Major Releases will be supported for up to 3 years from the date such release was made available for purchase and download by customers.
  • Minor Releases will be supported for a minimum of 13 months from the date such release was made available for purchase and download by customers.
  • Minor Releases will be supported for a minimum of 25 months from the date such release was made available for download and support as part of product subscription purchase. For only the last minor version within a major version (Spring Boot 2.7, Spring Boot 3.5, etc) an additional enterprise support period of five years will be added onto the existing support period.

Other OSS Support Lifecycle

• Open Source Community Project Major Releases will be supported for up to 3 years from the date such release was made available for purchase and download by customers.
• Open Source Community Project Minor Releases will be supported for a minimum of 12 months from the date such release was made available for purchase and download by customers.
• Open Source Community Project Minor Releases will be supported for a minimum of 24 months from the date such release was made available for download and support as part of product subscription purchase.

Scope of Support services for OSS

• Tanzu Spring provides both troubleshooting and bug-fix support for the OSS. Customers running OSS will receive committed bug-fixes in the official open source project release package according to the release cycle of each project.