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Retired HDInsight versions

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This page lists all the versions of HDInsight that are retired and/or out of support. If you’re currently on one of the versions mentioned on this page, we recommend that you immediately migrate to the latest version. If you choose not to migrate and continue using any of the following versions, be aware of the following terms and risks associated with your continued usage of retired and unsupported software:  ​

  • As a retired and out of support version of an Azure service, HDInsight hasn't been shipping and won’t ship any updates or security patches to these versions. Some of the OSS components in these versions haven’t been updated for several years.   ​

  • By continuing to use these versions, there are security risks that may lead to vulnerabilities, system instability, and potential data loss for you and your customers.  ​

  • HDInsight won’t be able to provide support or help if a security compromise occurs, as we don't have pipelines and patching mechanisms for these versions.  ​

  • If there are any operational issues, HDInsight won’t be able to provide support for root cause analysis, investigation of failures, or performance degradation/issues.  ​

  • There's no guarantee that all the existing functionality of your clusters continues to work as-is, because underlying dependencies determine the availability of the existing features in these versions. If there's a breaking change due to these dependencies, there's no way to recover the impacted clusters.  ​

  • The new service capabilities developed by HDInsight won’t be applicable to these versions.  ​

  • In the extreme event of a serious security threat to the service caused by the outdated version you're using, HDInsight might choose to stop or delete your clusters immediately to secure the service. In such cases, there's no way to recover the impacted HDInsight clusters, but your data in Azure storage and BYO Azure SQL DBs aren't deleted and can be utilized to migrate to the latest HDInsight version.  ​

Retired version list

The following table lists the retired versions of HDInsight.

HDInsight version HDP version VM OS Release date Support expiration date Retirement date Availability in the Azure portal
HDInsight 3.6 HDP 2.5 Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS April 4, 2017 June 30, 2021 October 1, 2022 No
HDInsight 3.5 HDP 2.5 Ubuntu 16.0.4 LTS September 30, 2016 September 5, 2017 June 28, 2018 No
HDInsight 3.4 HDP 2.4 Ubuntu 14.0.4 LTS March 29, 2016 December 29, 2016 January 9, 2018 No
HDInsight 3.3 HDP 2.3 Windows Server 2012 R2 December 2, 2015 June 27, 2016 July 31, 2018 No
HDInsight 3.3 HDP 2.3 Ubuntu 14.0.4 LTS December 2, 2015 June 27, 2016 July 31, 2017 No
HDInsight 3.2 HDP 2.2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or Windows Server 2012 R2 February 18, 2015 March 1, 2016 April 1, 2017 No
HDInsight 3.1 HDP 2.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 June 24, 2014 May 18, 2015 June 30, 2016 No
HDInsight 3.0 HDP 2.0 Windows Server 2012 R2 February 11, 2014 September 17, 2014 June 30, 2015 No
HDInsight 2.1 HDP 1.3 Windows Server 2012 R2 October 28, 2013 May 12, 2014 May 31, 2015 No
HDInsight 1.6 HDP 1.1 October 28, 2013 April 26, 2014 May 31, 2015 No

Call to action

To maintain the security posture,  migrate to the latest image of HDInsight 5.1, which is Generally Available since November 1, 2023. This release contains all the latest versions of supported software along with significant improvements on the security patches on open-source components.  ​

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