Varnish Cache 8.0 lifecycle
Current status
Varnish Cache 8.0 is currently in standard support.
Official lifecycle source: Vinyl Cache / Varnish Releases
- Support phase
- standard support
- End of life
- 15 Sept 2026
- Latest release
- 8.0.2
- Released
- 18 May 2026
At a glance
- Version line
- 8.0
- Initial release
- 15 Sept 2025
- Lifecycle phase
- standard support
- Latest stable
- 8.0.2
- Latest release date
- 18 May 2026
- EOL
- 15 Sept 2026
- Until EOL
- 13 days
- Risk
- medium
- Releases tracked
- 2
Lifecycle timeline
Phases from published LifecyclePeriod records. Missing phases are not inferred.
Release
15 Sept 2025
standard supportcurrent
15 Sept 2025 → 15 Sept 2026
Source: Vinyl Cache / Varnish Releases
end of life
15 Sept 2026 → —
Source: Vinyl Cache / Varnish Releases
Varnish Cache 8.0 is currently in standard support.
Upgrade options
Newer supported Varnish Cache version lines from CompatHub lifecycle data. Compatibility and security context use existing evidence only.
You are on Varnish Cache 8.0
SupportedEOL 15 September 2026
Supported upgrade options
- Varnish Cache 9.0Upgrade planner →SupportedEOL 16 March 2027· ~6 months more support· 1 major version newer
Latest release
8.0.2
Released 18 May 2026 · stable
Previous releases
8.0.0
15 Sept 2025
Release history
2 concrete releases tracked for this line.
| Version | Release date | Channel | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0.2 | 18 May 2026 | stable | — |
| 8.0.0 | 15 Sept 2025 | stable | Source |
Release activity
- Total releases
- 2
- Last 30 days
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Most recent
- 18 May 2026
Should I use this version?
Suitable for new deployments
Varnish Cache 8.0 is currently supported (standard support).
Version comparison
Compact comparison against the nearest relevant release lines.
Sources
Where this information comes from.
Lifecycle sources
- Vinyl Cache / Varnish Releasesfirst party · high confidence
Official source: https://vinyl-cache.org/releases/
Last verified 2 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
- Vinyl Cache / Varnish Releasesfirst party · high confidence
Official source: https://vinyl-cache.org/releases/
Last verified 2 Sept 2026
- Varnish Cache GitHub Tagsfirst party
Official source: https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/tags
Verification time not recorded
Data coverage
Last checked = last successful upstream check. Latest source update = when upstream content last changed.
- Releases tracked
- 2
- Lifecycle periods
- 2
- EOL
- Known
- Provenance records
- 3
- Data last checked
- 2 Sept 2026
- Latest source update
- 2 Sept 2026