Kibana 8.18 lifecycle
Current status
Kibana 8.18 is currently in extended support. Extended support is available according to published lifecycle data.
Official lifecycle source: Elastic Product End of Life Policy
- Support phase
- extended support
- End of life
- 15 Jul 2027
- Latest release
- 8.18.8
- Released
- 6 Oct 2025
At a glance
- Version line
- 8.18
- Initial release
- 15 Apr 2025
- Lifecycle phase
- extended support
- Latest stable
- 8.18.8
- Latest release date
- 6 Oct 2025
- EOL
- 15 Jul 2027
- Until EOL
- ~10 months
- Risk
- medium
- Releases tracked
- 9
Lifecycle timeline
Phases from published LifecyclePeriod records. Missing phases are not inferred.
Release
15 Apr 2025
standard support
15 Apr 2025 → 23 Oct 2025
Source: Elastic Product End of Life Policy
extended supportcurrent
23 Oct 2025 → 15 Jul 2027
Source: Elastic Product End of Life Policy
end of life
15 Jul 2027 → —
Source: Elastic Product End of Life Policy
Kibana 8.18 is currently in extended support. Extended support is available according to published lifecycle data.
Upgrade options
Newer supported Kibana version lines from CompatHub lifecycle data. Compatibility and security context use existing evidence only.
You are on Kibana 8.18
SupportedEOL 15 July 2027
Supported upgrade options
- Kibana 9.5Upgrade planner →SupportedEOL 15 April 2028· ~9 months more support· 1 major version newer
- Kibana 9.4Upgrade planner →SupportedEOL 15 April 2028· ~9 months more support· 1 major version newer
- Kibana 8.19Upgrade planner →SupportedEOL 15 July 2027· 1 minor version newer
Latest release
Previous releases
8.18.7
16 Sept 2025
8.18.6
28 Aug 2025
8.18.5
12 Aug 2025
Release history
9 concrete releases tracked for this line.
Release activity
- Total releases
- 9
- Last 30 days
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Avg. interval
- ~22 days
- Most recent
- 6 Oct 2025
Should I use this version?
Supported, but a newer release line may be preferable
Kibana 8.18 is in extended support. Consider Kibana 9.5 for new work.
Version comparison
Compact comparison against the nearest relevant release lines.
Sources
Where this information comes from.
Lifecycle sources
- Elastic Product End of Life Policyfirst party · high confidence
Official source: https://www.elastic.co/support/eol
Last verified 1 Sept 2026
- OSV.devfirst party
Official source: https://osv.dev
Verification time not recorded
- NVD (NIST)first party
Official source: https://nvd.nist.gov
Verification time not recorded
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilitiesfirst party
Official source: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
Verification time not recorded
Release sources
- Elastic Product End of Life Policyfirst party · high confidence
Official source: https://www.elastic.co/support/eol
Last verified 1 Sept 2026
- Kibana GitHub Releasesfirst party
Official source: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/releases
Verification time not recorded
Data coverage
Last checked = last successful upstream check. Latest source update = when upstream content last changed.
- Releases tracked
- 9
- Lifecycle periods
- 3
- EOL
- Known
- Provenance records
- 4
- Data last checked
- 1 Sept 2026
- Latest source update
- 1 Sept 2026