{"ref":"capability:product-maintenance-status","page":"/capabilities/product-maintenance-status","json":"/capabilities/product-maintenance-status.json","generated":"2026-10-26","drafted_with_ai":true,"entity":{"id":"product-maintenance-status","name":"Knowing the maintenance status of a release","domain":"operations-and-runtime","ecosystems":["abap","cap","ui5"],"universal":true,"description":"Knowing whether a release a solution runs on is still maintained, and until when: which versions get fixes, which get critical fixes only, and when maintenance ends. Upgrading to a newer release once that is known is a different job.","short":"Whether a release is still maintained, and until when","core_coverage":{"state":"core-and-community","assessed_at":"2026-10-12","relationship":"unassessed","what_core_does":"SAP's Product Availability Matrix on the SAP Support Portal lists, for each SAP software release, its release type, its maintenance durations, its planned availability and its upgrade paths, with the database platforms and operating systems it runs on.","where_it_stops":"At one release at a time, read in the portal or exported as a file. The matrix does not hold which releases a given organisation runs, so checking a landscape against it is a person's own list held next to the matrix.","sources":[{"url":"https://support.sap.com/en/release-upgrade-maintenance/product-availability-matrix.html","title":"SAP Support Portal — Product Availability Matrix","checked":"2026-10-12","quote":"The Product Availability Matrix (PAM) provides you with information about SAP software releases: release types, maintenance durations, planned availability, and upgrade paths."},{"url":"https://support.sap.com/en/release-upgrade-maintenance/product-availability-matrix.html","title":"SAP Support Portal — Product Availability Matrix","checked":"2026-10-12","quote":"The PAM also offers information about platform availability, including database platform and operating systems."}],"note":"SAP's answer is a page of the SAP Support Portal rather than something one develops with, so it is not an artifact. The entries that answer this across stacks are listed on the Operations & Runtime domain page and count into no door's coverage.","community_adds":"Tools that read a person's own export of the Product Availability Matrix: a browser app, [SAP Support Radar](artifact:tobiashofmann-sap-support-radar), that checks the releases a person marks as their landscape, and a local MCP server, [pam-mcp-server](artifact:tobiashofmann-pam-mcp-server), that answers an agent's questions about version status. Both are by [Tobias Hofmann](actor:tobiashofmann)."},"coverage_by_ecosystem":{"cap":{"state":"core-only","assessed_at":"2026-10-12","what_core_does":"capire's release schedule says that when a new major CAP version is released, the former one enters maintenance status, receives critical bug fixes only for at most twelve more months, and then reaches end of life; CAP Node.js majors follow the end of life of [Node.js](external:nodejs) LTS releases.","where_it_stops":"At CAP's own runtimes. The schedule says nothing about the releases of the SAP systems a CAP application connects to, which are in the Product Availability Matrix.","sources":[{"url":"https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/releases/schedule","title":"capire — Release Schedule","checked":"2026-10-12","quote":"Whenever a new major CAP version is released, the former major version enters maintenance status. It receives critical bug fixes only and for a period of at most twelve more months. After this, it reaches end of life ."},{"url":"https://cap.cloud.sap/docs/releases/schedule","title":"capire — Release Schedule","checked":"2026-10-12","quote":"CAP releases are linked to the Node.js Release Schedule : New major releases are triggered by end of life of Node.js LTS releases"}]},"ui5":{"state":"core-and-community","assessed_at":"2026-10-26","what_core_does":"The SAPUI5 version overview lists the SAPUI5 versions available on SAP BTP and their maintenance status, and points to SAP's maintenance strategy document for versions from 1.120 and to the previous one for older versions.","where_it_stops":"At SAPUI5 on SAP BTP. Which SAP_UI version and front-end server an on-premise system carries is no longer on the page and sits in an SAP Note.","sources":[{"url":"https://ui5.sap.com/versionoverview.html","title":"SAPUI5 Version Overview","checked":"2026-10-12","quote":"SAPUI5 Versions Maintenance Status for SAP BTP"},{"url":"https://ui5.sap.com/versionoverview.html","title":"SAPUI5 Version Overview","checked":"2026-10-12","quote":"Information about SAP_UI versions and Front-end Server mappings previously shown in the \"SAP_UI version\" and \"Front-end Server\" columns is now available in SAP Note 3636986 ."},{"url":"https://ui5.sap.com/versionoverview.html","title":"SAPUI5 Version Overview","checked":"2026-10-12","quote":"For SAPUI5 versions below 1.120, the previous maintenance strategy applies."}],"relationship":"unassessed","community_adds":"A UI5 build task, [ui5-task-check-eocp](artifact:qualiture-ui5-task-check-eocp), that matches the UI5 version in a project's ui5.yaml against the versions retrieved from ui5.sap.com and warns once that version's End of Cloud Provisioning quarter is reached."}},"history":[{"date":"2026-10-12","field":"entry","from":null,"to":"created","reason":"Drafted with sap-support-radar and pam-mcp-server, the first umbrella artifacts (ADR-0063), which had no concern to attach to: mcp-servers is serving an application one built, agent-systems-access reaches into a running SAP system, and documentation is first-party docs made searchable. On the ABAP, CAP and UI5 doors because each has a published SAP answer of its own: the Product Availability Matrix, capire's release schedule and the SAPUI5 version overview. BTP is left out: its services name plans and regions rather than releases, and no page was read that states a maintenance period for one. core-only on every door because SAP publishes the answer and no door holds an option of its own; the umbrella entries count into no door's coverage by construction."},{"date":"2026-10-26","field":"core_coverage.state, core_coverage.note, core_coverage.community_adds","from":"core-only; \"...so there is no artifact on the core side.\"","to":"core-and-community; note reworded; community_adds names the two Product Availability Matrix tools","reason":"Reassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the two independent providers serve the ABAP door beside SAP's sourced answer, the Product Availability Matrix, which is a portal page and not an artifact."},{"date":"2026-10-26","field":"coverage_by_ecosystem.ui5.state, coverage_by_ecosystem.ui5.community_adds","from":"core-only","to":"core-and-community; community_adds names ui5-task-check-eocp","reason":"ui5-task-check-eocp, from public feedback issue #6, is the first independent provider on the UI5 door, beside SAP's SAPUI5 version overview."}],"drafted_with_ai":true},"sap_delivery":{"door":"abap","all":null,"by_flavor":{"standard-abap":null,"abap-cloud":null}},"edges":{"use_cases":[],"shared_tasks":[],"related_tasks":[],"options":[{"ref":"artifact:tobiashofmann-pam-mcp-server","name":"pam-mcp-server","json":"/artifacts/tobiashofmann-pam-mcp-server.json","ecosystem":"umbrella","origin_ring":"independent"},{"ref":"artifact:tobiashofmann-sap-support-radar","name":"SAP Support Radar","json":"/artifacts/tobiashofmann-sap-support-radar.json","ecosystem":"umbrella","origin_ring":"independent"},{"ref":"artifact:qualiture-ui5-task-check-eocp","name":"ui5-task-check-eocp","json":"/artifacts/qualiture-ui5-task-check-eocp.json","ecosystem":"ui5","origin_ring":"independent"}],"samples":[],"explained_by":[],"normative_context":[]}}