NoMachine Product Lifecycle

NoMachine's product lifecycle consists of general availability of a new branch version or "major release" (e.g. NoMachine 9) and successive maintenance releases in the form of product updates or upgrades. These "minor versions" are recognized by the digit following the first number indicating the branch, e.g., 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 and so on.

During this lifecycle period of a branch, new features are implemented according to the NoMachine roadmap, bugs and security issues that have been reported are fixed and then released to the general public. To receive continued maintenance, NoMachine customers are required to update or upgrade to a newer version of the product.

IMPORTANT: A branch version of NoMachine software (e.g., v.8) is fully supported and maintained until the release of a new major, e.g., NoMachine 9. At that point, all implementations at the code-level automatically move from the previous version to the latest version and a new lifecycle starts.

Maintenance releases

For customers with active subscriptions, NoMachine will, as a rule, continue to maintain the last available version of an earlier branch (e.g., version 8.17) for two years after a new major has been made released. NoMachine can decide to extend that time if deemed necessary. Maintenance for the previous branch is in the form of critical security issues and to consolidate fixes where possible. These maintenance releases are on as-needed basis: there may be multiple maintenance updates, or none, depending on the number of reports.
 

Example

As mentioned above, once a new major is released, active development and bug/security fixing is automatically passed on to the latest available version. For example, version 9 was released in May 2025 to succeed version 8 (first released in September 2022 ) and all new implementations will continue on the v9 branch. Maintenance in the form of security fixes, and where possible hot fixes, will still continue for version 8 on a as-need basis for two years from the date of release of version 9, thus taking maintenance of version 8 to May 2027.

The table below gives an indication of the end-of-life for each branch.

* The end of support date was extended

Legacy NX software and discontinued products

NoMachine no longer supports versions prior to NoMachine 8. If you are still using an older version and your subscription has expired, please contact us to know how to renew and update.

NX Derivatives

A number of projects have expressed interest in continuing open-source development of the legacy NX 3 software, among these are FreeNX, NeatX, X2Go, 2X and Xpra. These are not supported by NoMachine software, and NoMachine does not endorse them in any way nor has any control on the quality or the functionality of the software they distribute. Please be sure you refer to the support facilities of the respective project when using software packages distributed by third parties.