# What is EOL of RL8 **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [June 30, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-is-eol-of-rl8/3316 "2021-06-30T12:50:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![label](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@label](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/label)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2021, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-is-eol-of-rl8/3316/10 "2021-10-12T07:00:28Z")
As @sweh pointed out, the point release versions are just a point of time. The moment 8.5 drops, 8.4 is no longer supported and a `dnf update` will bring you to the latest. We only support what is latest and current as released by upstream and us. RHEL has generally had a 10 year lifecycle on a release where the first 5 years is fully supported (which is generally two point releases a year) and then goes to maintenance mode for the last 5 years where X.10 is the final (RHEL 5 and 7 are notable exceptions to this, 5 ended with 5.11, 7 ended with 7.9). Myself and other leads have talked about putting a clarifying page on how the EOL generally works. The red hat [policy](https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata) page actually goes over how they do it and we generally follow the same idea (sans EUS and supporting point releases older than what’s current). Below is _sort of_ an example. This isn’t perfect and is more of a projection based on how releases have historically happened. For the sake of the example, I threw in when expected future EL drop times, which historically is around the `.6` of the current production release. (EL9 and EL10 are just examples and are likely not accurate, but the EL8 should be pretty close to accurate). This tries to follow the “every 3 years” plan that Red Hat has said they would be doing going forward. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/2X/6/667ed1a35e1acaf15f69bb1a5cb4047adc84ed55.png) --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/what-is-eol-of-rl8/3316)._