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Welcome to the Stormshield Network Security & Tools life cycle guide.

It contains information on managing the various versions of products in the range, notably versions on which Stormshield provides technical support and maintenance, compatibility with third-party products and operating systems, and the version upgrade policy.

For information on a particular SNS version, refer to the section on Versions in this guide, and to the SNS version release notes. For more information on physical firewalls in the range, refer to the section Physical firewalls.

Date	Description
December 17, 2024	Release of SMC 3.7 SMC compatibilities updated Announcement of "End of Maintenance" and "End of life" dates for SMC 3.6 Certification/Qualification for SNS 4.3 by the CCN (Spain) added
November 20, 2024	Changes to the "End of Life" date on SSL VPN Client 3.2 Changes to the "End of Maintenance" and "End of Life" dates on version 4.7
October 9, 2024	Announcement of "End of Sales" date on VPN clients Standard and Exclusive
October 2, 2024	Changes to the "End of Life" date on SN Vulnerability Manager (SNVM)
September 30, 2024	Network modules NA-EX-CARD-BP-8xG-C, NA-EX-CARD-2x25G-F, NC-1-8x2_5G-C, NC-1-8xG-FIB-SFP, NC-1-4x10G-COP, NC-1-4x10G-FIB-SFP-P and NC-1-2x40G-QSFP-P added Transceivers NA-TRANS-SFP28-SR and NA-TRANS-SFP28-LR added Announcement of "End of Sales" and "End of Life" dates on SN2100, SN3100 and SN6100 firewalls Changes to the "End of Maintenance" and "End of Life" dates on version 4.7
August 22, 2024	Release of SSL VPN Client 4 SSL VPN Client compatibilities updated Changes to the "End of Life" date on versions 3.7 LTSB and 3.11 LTSB
August 7, 2024	"End of Maintenance" concept added. This distinguishes the "End of Maintenance" and "End of Life" phases Link added to the document describing the compatibility of hardware modules with physical firewalls The term "supported" has been replaced with "compatible" or "with maintenance" depending on the context, to remove ambiguity The life cycle policy has been reworded for the purposes of simplicity and clarity. "End of Maintenance" and "End of Life" dates added for SSO Agent 2.1 and Real-Time Monitor 4.0.0
July 30, 2024	Release of SMC 3.6 SMC compatibilities updated
July 17, 2024	Highest SNS version changed on SN-L-Series-2200, SN-L-Series-3200, SN-XL-Series-5200 and SN-XL-Series-6200 models
July 11, 2024	"Certified and qualified versions" section added Release of SNS 4.8 Highest SNS version on SN160(W), SN210(W) and SN310 models announced End of Life for SNVM and standard URL filtering
May 24, 2024	Announcement of the date from which SN-L-Series-2200 and SN-L-Series-3200 models became available Announcement of the highest SNS version for SMC up to version 3.5
May 2, 2024	Announcement of the date from which SN-XL-Series-5200 and SN- XL-Series-6200 models became available
April 10, 2024	Release of SN-XL-Series-5200 and SN-XL-Series-6200 models
February 26, 2024	Release of Exclusive VPN client 7.5
February 22, 2024	Announcement of the discontinuation of compatibility with VMWare ESXi 6.5, 6.7 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 Document reorganized by product
November 8, 2023	Release of SMC 3.5.2 Version maintenance (example): "Early Adopter" (EA) label added
October 31, 2023	Release of SNS version 4.7 and TS Agent 1.0 History purged
October 13, 2023	"End of Sales" and "Highest SNS firmware version" terminology changed Announcement of "End of Sales" and "End of Life" dates on SN160, SN210, SN310, SN510 and SN710 firewalls