YugabyteDB Anywhere releases

Releases

Release series	Released	End of maintenance support	End of Life (EOL)
v2024.1 STS	June 4, 2024	September 4, 2025	March 7, 2026
v2.21 Preview	March 26, 2024	n/a	n/a
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

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.

Supported versions

Every version of YugabyteDB Anywhere supports the same version and prior releases of YugabyteDB, down to and including the two preceding LTS release series and any intervening STS releases. This provides a span of support of approximately 2 years.

YugabyteDB Anywhere v2.20.x supports the following YugabyteDB release series:

v2.20.x (LTS)
v2.18.x (STS)
v2.16.x (STS)
v2.14.x (LTS)

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

For information 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.