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Lifecycle Stages and Limits of Tencent Cloud Products

The table below lists the limits regarding purchase, usage, and service support in different lifecycle stages of products or features.
Lifecycle Stage
Supported Item
Limit
Suggestion
General Availability
(GA)
All features of cloud products can be used normally.
Renewal is supported.
Configuration adjustments, including upgrades and downgrades, are supported.
Return, termination, and deactivation are supported.
Version upgrades are supported.
Security vulnerability fixing is supported.
Feature issue fixing is supported.
The after-sales service is supported.
None
None
End of Marketing
(EOM)
All features of cloud products can be used normally.
Renewal is supported.
Configuration adjustments, including upgrades and downgrades, are supported.
Return, termination, and deactivation are supported.
Security vulnerability fixing is supported.
Only feature issue fixing is supported.
The after-sales service is supported.
Service purchase is stopped.
Version upgrade is stopped.

Upgrade to a later version. For specific operations, see Upgrading Instance Version.
End of Full Support
(EOFS)
All features can be used normally before EOFS.
Return, termination, and deactivation are supported.
Service purchase is stopped.
Version upgrade is stopped.
Renewal is stopped.
Configuration adjustment is stopped.
The after-sales service is stopped.
Issue fixing and vulnerability fixing are stopped.
Maintenance is about to stop for all instances at this stage. Security vulnerabilities and issues will no longer be fixed, and related after-sales support requests will no longer be accepted. Please upgrade to a later version promptly. For specific operations, see Upgrading Instance Version.
End of Service
(EOS)
All services and supports are stopped.
All features are unavailable.
Service purchase is stopped.
Version upgrade is stopped.
Renewal is stopped.
Configuration adjustment is stopped.
Return, termination, and deactivation are stopped.
The after-sales service is stopped.
Issue fixing and security vulnerability fixing are stopped.
Product consoles cannot be accessed.
Instance resources are released.
None.

Lifecycle Plan of Tencent Cloud Distributed Cache

Tencent Cloud Distributed Cache is a cache database with a code branch independently maintained by Tencent Cloud and is 100% compatible with the Redis protocol. It features high performance, high availability, high reliability, high elasticity, and high security. The lifecycle of all its versions is not limited by the lifecycle in the open-source community but is independently maintained and managed by the Tencent Cloud database team. To ensure business stability, please plan your upgrade schedule according to the product lifecycle and upgrade to supported versions promptly.
Version
Lifecycle Stage
Estimated EOM Date
Estimated EOFS Date
Estimated EOS Date
Recommended Version for Upgrade
Redis 2.8
EOM
2021-12-30
2025-06-30
2025-12-30
Redis 5.0 or later versions
Redis 4.0
GA
2025-12-30
2026-06-30
2026-12-30
Redis 5.0
GA
2026-06-30
2026-12-30
2027-06-30
Redis 6.0 or later versions
Redis 6.2
GA
None
Redis 7.0
GA
ValKey 8.0
GA
Memcached 1.6 version
GA
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