Which Python Versions Does ActiveState Support?

Which Python Language Versions Does ActiveState Support?

ActiveState offers extended support for current and older versions of Python for Microsoft Windows, Linux and MacOS. For Python 3.6 and above, we provide ongoing support and security updates with Enterprise tier licensing. For older versions of Python 3, we provide access to our previously built ActivePython distributions, available at our Team tier and above.Learn more about our licensing options here. 

While the Python 2 programming language reached End of Life (EOL) in January 2020 and is no longer supported by the open source community or Python Software Foundation (python.org), ActiveState provides exclusive support and security updates as part of our Enterprise licensing for Python 2.7.

Learn more about our Python 2 extended support and get a free security assessment of your open source software dependencies and Python packages. Support levels vary across platforms/operating systems. More details below.

Python 3 Versions

All usage of ActivePython for an Python project (whether machine learning, data science, APIs, tutorials, Django web app, etc) deployed beyond Python developer’s workstations requires commercial licensing. The table below outlines the level of built-in support we provide with commercial licensing for each version. 

Maintained & Supported: Python package and dependency updates, as well as security updates for known security vulnerabilities (CVE’s) are provided on a regular basis. Available with Enterprise licensing.

Licensing Only: These versions have passed End of Life (EOL). As such, access to ActivePython is provided “as-is”, but these versions will no longer be updated.

Python Version Open Source Release Date Status Anticipated EOL Date
Python 3.11 10/24/2022 Maintained & Supported
Python 3.10 10/04/2021 Maintained & Supported Q4-2026
Python 3.9 10/05/2020 Maintained & Supported Q3-2025
Python 3.8 10/14/2019 Maintained & Supported Q3-2024
Python 3.7 06/27/2018 Maintained & Supported Q2-2023
Python 3.6 12/23/2016 Licensing Only EOL
Python 3.5 09/13/2015 Licensing Only EOL
Python 3.4 03/16/2014 Licensing Only EOL
Python 3.3 09/29/2013 Licensing Only EOL
Python 3.2 02/20/2011 Licensing Only EOL
Python 3.1 06/27/2009 Licensing Only EOL
Python 3.0 03/12/2008 Licensing Only EOL

ActiveState offers extended support for current and older versions of Python for Microsoft Windows, Linux and MacOS. For Python 3.6 and above, we provide ongoing support and security updates with Enterprise tier licensing. For older versions of Python 3, we provide access to our previously built ActivePython distributions, available at our Team tier and above.Learn more about our licensing options here. 

While the Python 2 programming language reached End of Life (EOL) in January 2020 and is no longer supported by the open source community or Python Software Foundation (python.org), ActiveState provides exclusive support and security updates as part of our Enterprise licensing for Python 2.7.

Learn more about our Python 2 extended support and get a free security assessment of your open source software dependencies and Python packages. Support levels vary across platforms/operating systems. More details below.

Python 2 Versions

As part of ActiveState’s Python 2 extended support, we continuously evaluate and fix known CVE’s impacting Python 2. Python developers can see the full list of Python 2 CVE’s we’ve fixed here. Note that Python 2 support is only available with Enterprise tier licensing.

Python Version Open Source Release Date Status Anticipated EOL Date
Python 2.7.18 4/20/2020 Maintained & Supported
Python 2.7.17 and below 10/19/2019 Licensing Only EOL

Python 2 Extended Support is available here. Contact us for pricing. ActivePython 2.7.18 FAQs, tutorials and docs can be found here.

Python Support – Windows/Linux/MacOS

Platform Status Anticipated EOL Date
Windows 11/10/Server x86 64-bit Maintained & Supported Q3-2025
Windows 10/Server x86 32-bit Licensing Only EOL
Windows 7 x86 64-bit Licensing Only EOL
Windows 7 x86 32-bit Licensing Only EOL
Linux x86 64-bit (RHEL 6+) Maintained & Supported
Linux 2.6 x86 32/64-bit (RHEL 5) Licensing Only EOL
macOS x64 10.12+ 64-bit Maintained & Supported
macOS x86 32-bit Licensing Only EOL

Solaris/AIX/HP-UX

Support and implementations for “big iron” systems (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX) is available on a custom basis, and limited to certain versions of Python. Below are the systems we currently support for existing enterprise customers. Please contact us to discuss your implementation and quickstart needs.

Platform Status Anticipated EOL Date
Solaris x86 all versions Licensing Only EOL
Solaris 11 SPARC 64-bit CC Maintained & Supported
Solaris 11 SPARC 32-bit CC Licensing Only EOL
Solaris 10 SPARC 64-bit CC Licensing Only EOL
Solaris 10 SPARC 32-bit CC Licensing Only EOL
Solaris 9 SPARC 32-bit CC Licensing Only EOL
Solaris 8 SPARC 32-bit CC Licensing Only EOL
AIX 7 on PowerPC 64-bit Maintained & Supported
AIX 7 on PowerPC 32-bit Licensing Only EOL
AIX 6 on PowerPC 64-bit Licensing Only EOL
AIX 6 on PowerPC 32-bit Licensing Only EOL
AIX 5.3 on PowerPC 64-bit Licensing Only EOL
HP-UX 11.31 64-bit IA-64 Licensing Only EOL
HP-UX 11.23/32 32/64-bit IA-64 Licensing Only EOL
HP-UX 11.11 PA RISC 1.1 32-bit Licensing Only EOL

Additional Python Support

Learn more about our enterprise licensing for software development here, as well as migration of your Python code and Python scripts from 2 to 3. For more information or if you have any questions on how we can help secure and configure your Python runtimes or open source code, please contact us at sales@activestate.com.

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