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This section lists the free and commercial Chef products and versions we currently support. The lifecycle stage defines the involvement by Chef Software in updating and maintaining each product.

Lifecycle Definitions

Generally Available (GA)

This stage indicates that the product or version is in active development and/or maintenance.

• Chef continues to provide releases to the application or version in response to customer needs and security vulnerabilities
• Chef welcomes customer feature requests for the product roadmap for the application

Deprecated

This stage indicates that an application or version is no longer in active development and will eventually move to end of life status. Chef continues to provide support according to our SLAs.

• Chef no longer provides scheduled releases
• Customers should use the GA alternative to these products; contact us for help with product selection and deployment
• Chef may provide a release for a critical defect or security vulnerability

End of Life (EOL)

This stage indicates that Chef has set a date after which the application or version will no longer be supported or recommended for use by customers.

• As of the end of life date, the application will no longer be supported by Chef and will no longer be available for download
• Documentation for the application will be moved to https://docs-archive.chef.io

Versions and Status

Supported Commercial Distributions

Use of these and later versions of these distributions must be in accordance with the Chef End User License Agreement or a commercial agreement with Chef. Additional information is available in this announcement.

Supported Free Distributions

Use of the following distributions is governed by the Apache License, version 2.0.

Deprecated Products and Versions

The following products are deprecated. Users are advised to move to newer versions or products.

End of Life (EOL) Products