Omnissa Horizon End of Life (EOL) Dates and End of Support (EOS) Dates

Planning around Omnissa Horizon end of life starts with knowing when each release stops getting fixes. This guide lists the EOL and support dates for the platform that VMware Horizon customers know from years of VMware sales, so the virtual desktops and digital workspace you run stay patched and supported.

Omnissa Horizon End of Life Dates by Release

Every Horizon end of life date comes from a release's general availability: general support runs three years, and technical guidance adds two more. A build stays a supported release until those dates pass. Omnissa counts from the ship date, so a VMware Horizon version shipped in October 2023 ages out sooner than one shipped in 2026. Check the dates below against your exact VMware build before you plan an upgrade.

These dates follow the schedule published on endoflife.date and match Wikipedia's version table for the builds both cover. Treat the official lifecycle matrix as the final word on any VMware or Omnissa release.

Horizon 8 Release History

Version numbers encode the year and month a build was planned for, so 2309 is the September 2023 release. Each one has release notes naming the compatible vSphere and vCenter builds, which you should read before upgrading the hypervisor under your VMware desktops.

Horizon 7 and Extended Service Branch Releases

VMware Horizon 7 is long past support, and the Extended Service Branch explains why some builds lasted longer than others:

• VMware Horizon 7.13 was the last significant Horizon 7 release, and endoflife.date puts its end of general support at 30 April 2023.
• Park Place Technologies lists VMware Horizon 7 EOSL dates of 22 and 23 March 2023, so sources differ by a few weeks.
• An ESB, introduced in Q2 2018, gets three planned maintenance updates about 6, 9 and 15 months after its base VMware version, and a new ESB arrives every 12 months.
• VMware Horizon runs on a Windows, Linux or macOS client operating system.

End of General Support vs End of Technical Guidance

The two phases differ in what you still receive. General support is the last date you can request help, and it covers maintenance updates, bug fixes, security fixes and security patches, along with technical assistance and upgrades under the Support and Subscription Terms and Conditions.

Technical guidance is much thinner. You get workarounds for low-severity issues on supported configurations only, and Omnissa adds no new hardware support, no guest or client OS updates, and no new patches. Treat this phase as a short runway to migrate off VMware-era builds.

PCoIP End of Service Life and the Blast Protocol

The PCoIP protocol option stayed in the Horizon Client and Horizon Agent through the end of 2025 and leaves all new VMware Horizon releases after that. VMware introduced the Blast protocol in 2013, and Blast Extreme is the replacement to test now. HP owns PCoIP through Teradici, and PCoIP never worked with Horizon Cloud next-gen. An ESB keeps receiving security updates for its agent, and Microsoft RDP remains among the other remote desktop protocols VMware Horizon supports.

Horizon Client Version Support

The client follows its own lifecycle, and no ESB exists for it: every security fix lands in the latest VMware Horizon client. Keep each thin client and laptop on the current release so desktop virtualization and app virtualization sessions keep working.

VMware Horizon EOSL Planning After the Spin-Off

Broadcom completed its VMware acquisition in November 2023, then spun the end-user computing division out as Omnissa in May 2024 under a sale to KKR. Your VMware Horizon EOSL calendar now belongs to Omnissa, whose reseller agreement with Broadcom offers combined VMware Horizon and vSphere Foundation bundles for VDI. Each license comes as named user or concurrent user, on 1-, 3- or 5-year terms. This virtual desktop infrastructure choice shapes renewals, so match it to the dates above.

Budget and Transition Planning for IT Managers

Work backward from your end of technical guidance date. Put the upgrade in the budget a year early, and list hardware and security dependencies. Park Place Technologies advises third party maintenance for aging VMware hardware, but plan the software transition first.