Kibana 9.4 lifecycle
Current status
Kibana 9.4 is currently in standard support.
Official lifecycle source: Elastic Product End of Life Policy
- Support phase
- standard support
- End of life
- 15 Apr 2028
- Latest release
- 9.4.6
- Released
- 1 Sept 2026
At a glance
- Version line
- 9.4
- Initial release
- 5 May 2026
- Lifecycle phase
- standard support
- Latest stable
- 9.4.6
- Latest release date
- 1 Sept 2026
- EOL
- 15 Apr 2028
- Until EOL
- ~19 months
- Risk
- low
- Releases tracked
- 7
Lifecycle timeline
Phases from published LifecyclePeriod records. Missing phases are not inferred.
Release
5 May 2026
standard supportcurrent
5 May 2026 → 15 Oct 2027
Source: Elastic Product End of Life Policy
extended support
15 Oct 2027 → 15 Apr 2028
Source: Elastic Product End of Life Policy
end of life
15 Apr 2028 → —
Source: Elastic Product End of Life Policy
Kibana 9.4 is currently in standard support.
Upgrade options
Newer supported Kibana version lines from CompatHub lifecycle data. Compatibility and security context use existing evidence only.
You are on Kibana 9.4
SupportedEOL 15 April 2028
Supported upgrade options
- Kibana 9.5Upgrade planner →SupportedEOL 15 April 2028· 1 minor version newer
Latest release
Previous releases
9.4.5
11 Aug 2026
9.4.4
21 Jul 2026
9.4.3
30 Jun 2026
Release history
7 concrete releases tracked for this line.
Release activity
- Total releases
- 7
- Last 30 days
- 2
- Last 90 days
- 4
- Avg. interval
- ~20 days
- Most recent
- 1 Sept 2026
Should I use this version?
Suitable for new deployments
Kibana 9.4 is currently supported (standard support).
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
- 7
- Lifecycle periods
- 3
- EOL
- Known
- Provenance records
- 4
- Data last checked
- 1 Sept 2026
- Latest source update
- 1 Sept 2026