BMC Software Product Lifecycle

Release dates, version history and support and end-of-life dates as published by BMC Software. Dates within the next 12 months are highlighted; past dates are dimmed. Retrieved 2026-10-13.

• BMC Product Support Policy (Enterprise Products). At least five years of support from the VV.RR general availability date: at least three years of Full Support, then at least two years of Limited Support, then End of Version Support. [1]
• Containerized Releases Support Policy (DSOM products, 21.x and later). Each containerized VV.RR release has one year of full support from general availability, followed by six months of limited support, then end of support. [1]
• Continuous Delivery Mainframe Products Support Policy. The current version and the immediately preceding version receive full support, for a minimum of two years per version, after which versions move to End of Version Support. [1]
• Product End of Life. BMC may end of life a product by terminating support, with at least 12 months notice posted to Support Central and sent to enrolled customers. [1]
• BMC Helix Service Update policy. BMC applies updates to Helix subscription services; BMC Helix ITSM customers may remain on a version no older than n-2 of the latest version. [14]

Continuously updated 11

BMC Helix Continuous Optimization (Subscription service updated by BMC under the BMC Helix Service Update policy; no per-version end dates published)[14], BMC Helix Control-M (Start, Scale, Non-Production) (SaaS offering of Control-M; BMC lists a single version (10.0.00) with no end dates)[10], BMC Helix ITOM (BMC Helix IT Operations Management subscription releases are push updates with no opt-out)[14], BMC Helix ITSM (Subscription service updated by BMC under the BMC Helix Service Update policy; no per-version end dates published (customers stay within n-2 of the latest version))[14][4], BMC Helix Operations Management (Subscription service: major releases quarterly, minor releases monthly, updates applied by BMC)[14], BMC Helix Platform (Custom Applications Named Users) (Subscription service updated by BMC under the BMC Helix Service Update policy; no per-version end dates published)[14], BMC Helix Service Management (Subscription service updated by BMC under the BMC Helix Service Update policy; no per-version end dates published)[14], BMC Helix Service Management Standard / Advanced - Concurrent User (Subscription service updated by BMC under the BMC Helix Service Update policy; no per-version end dates published)[14], BMC Helix Service Management Standard / Advanced - Named User (Subscription service updated by BMC under the BMC Helix Service Update policy; no per-version end dates published)[14], Control-M SaaS (BMC lists a single version (10.0.00, released 2020-11-30) with no end dates)[10], Control-M SaaS (BMC Helix Control-M) (BMC lists a single version (10.0.00, released 2020-11-30) with no end dates)[10]