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12.2(18) SXF Software Release
Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(18)SXF for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series has reached End of Sale and the
dates are provided in Table 7.
Table 7. Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(18)SXF Goals and Dates as the First Extended Maintenance Release
Goal Date
Posting to Software Download Center September 2005
End of Life Announcement August 2009
End of extended maintenance September 2009
End of Sale February 2010
End of Critical Maintenance for WAN Interfaces
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February 2010
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End of critical maintenance February 2011
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NOTE: After the last planned rebuild in September 2009, only critical network impacting bugs
will be considered. Critical fixes will only be done on an as needed basic on the last planned
maintenance release 12.2(18)SXF17.
End of Support February 2015
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Critical maintenance for WAN interfaces ends earlier than the rest of 12.2(18)SXF hardware and feature support. For a detailed
list of WAN interfaces, please refer to the links below.
For more details, please view the 12.2(18)SXF End of Sale announcement:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps8802/ps6970/ps6017/end_of_life_c51-
568765_ps708_Products_End-of-Life_Notice.html.
Releases prior to 12.2(18)SXH
Cisco IOS Software releases prior to 12.2(18)SXH for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series have all reached End of
Critical Maintenance. These include 12.2(17)SXB, 12.2(18)SXD,12.2(18)SXE and 12.2(18)SXF releases.
All Cisco Catalyst 6500 systems running previous releases of 12.2SX such as 12.2(17)SXB, 12.2(18)SXD,
12.2(18)SXE, 12.2(18)SXF, and 12.2(33)SXH should be migrated to Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(18)SXI or
higher in order to get regular bug-fix maintenance rebuilds until the end of extended maintenance date.
Table 8. Last date of Support for the Cisco IOS Software Release prior to 12.2(18)SXH
Release End of Software Maintenance Last date of Support
12.2(17d)SXB 4/20/2006 4/20/2010
12.2(18)SXD 12/8/2006 12/8/2010
12.2(18)SXE 1/25/2007 1/25/2011
Standard Maintenance and Extended Maintenance Release Identification
At the time of initial posting to the Software Download Center, the product bulletin and release notes for a new
release will be updated to indicate whether it is designated as a standard maintenance release or an extended
maintenance release. Note that the "Posting to Software Download Center" date is effective on the initial new
technology release posting for all subsequent rebuilds on that release. For example, the "Posting to Software
Download Center" date for Release 12.2SXI5 will be the date Release 12.2SXI is first posted to the Cisco
Software Download Center Website. Therefore, the standard maintenance and extended maintenance
designations and dates only apply to the first build of a new technology release, such as 12.2SXI, and all
subsequent rebuilds will be subject to the same policy and dates.