End of life / WordPress / 3.8
End of life
WordPress 3.8 is past end of life.
Security fixes stopped on 1 Dec 2022, 1428 days ago. New vulnerabilities in 3.8 won’t be fixed.
- Released
- 12 Dec 2013
- Active support
- ended 16 Apr 2014
- Security fixes
- ended 1 Dec 2022
- Latest
- 3.8.41
Upgrade to WordPress 7.1: no end date announced yet.
Release cycles
Every WordPress cycle, at a glance.
Active support means bug fixes and security fixes; after it, security fixes only. Past the end of security support, nothing.
- Active support
- Security fixes only
- Supported
- Ends within 90 days
- Ended
Cycle
Status
Released
Active until
Security until
Latest
What to upgrade to
Go to 7.1.
7.1 is the newest supported WordPress cycle.
Before you upgrade
Only the newest release is fully supported; security fixes are backported to older branches as a courtesy, with no published end date. Back up, update plugins and the theme, then core. Read the WordPress 7.1 upgrade guide
How to check your version
Which WordPress is this site on?
With WP-CLI
In the files
In the dashboard
Know before support ends.
Porro reads the PHP, framework and database version from every site and tells you 90 days before support runs out.
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