YugabyteDB Anywhere releases

Releases

Release series Released End of maintenance support End of Life (EOL)
v2.23 Preview September 13, 2024 n/a n/a
v2024.1 STS June 4, 2024 September 4, 2025 March 7, 2026
v2.20 LTS November 13, 2023 November 13, 2025 May 13, 2026
v2.18 STS May 16, 2023 August 16, 2024 February 16, 2025
v2.14 LTS July 14, 2022 July 14, 2024 January 14, 2025

Replicated end of life

YugabyteDB Anywhere will end support for Replicated installation at the end of 2024. For new installations of YugabyteDB Anywhere, use YBA Installer. To migrate existing Replicated YugabyteDB Anywhere installations to YBA Installer, refer to Migrate from Replicated.

For end-of-life releases, see Releases at end of life.

For information on stable release support policy, see Stable Release support policy.

For information on release versioning, see Versioning.

Compatibility with YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB Anywhere is a control plane for deploying and managing YugabyteDB universes. You can use YugabyteDB Anywhere to deploy universes with an equivalent or earlier version of YugabyteDB.

Qualification tests for each new version of YugabyteDB Anywhere are run on the latest version of YugabyteDB in each release series.

Supported versions

Every version of YugabyteDB Anywhere supports the same version and all earlier releases of YugabyteDB.

For example, as of November 2024, YugabyteDB Anywhere v2024.2.x supports the following YugabyteDB release series:

For information on YugabyteDB release support timelines, refer to YugabyteDB releases.

YugabyteDB v2.14 and v2.18 End of Maintenance

v2.14 and v2.18 will reach end of maintenance in mid-2024. If you are running universes on these release series, you should consider upgrading those universes to the next LTS release series (v2.20).

For information on managing YugabyteDB releases and upgrading universes using YugabyteDB Anywhere, refer to Upgrade the YugabyteDB software.

Upgrading YugabyteDB Anywhere

Keep YugabyteDB Anywhere up-to-date with the latest stable version to get the latest fixes and improvements, as well as to be able to deploy the latest releases of YugabyteDB.

Replicated end of life

YugabyteDB Anywhere will end support for Replicated installation at the end of 2024. You can migrate existing Replicated YugabyteDB Anywhere installations using YBA Installer. To perform the migration, you must first upgrade to YugabyteDB Anywhere v2.20.1 or later using Replicated.

You can't use YugabyteDB Anywhere to deploy versions of YugabyteDB that are newer than your YugabyteDB Anywhere instance. To upgrade a universe to a more recent version of YugabyteDB, you may first have to upgrade YugabyteDB Anywhere.

  • For YugabyteDB upgrades in YugabyteDB Anywhere, you can only upgrade from a stable version to another stable version, or from a preview version to another preview version. Optionally, you can skip tests during upgrades.

  • For YugabyteDB Anywhere upgrades, you can only upgrade from a stable version to another stable version, or from a preview version to another preview version. Optionally, you can skip tests during upgrades.

For instructions on upgrading YugabyteDB Anywhere, refer to Upgrade YugabyteDB Anywhere.

Skip tests

Optionally, you can set a runtime flag yb.skip_version_checks to skip all YugabyteDB and YugabyteDB Anywhere version checks during upgrades. For more information, contact Yugabyte Support.