Recommended Releases for Catalyst

2960/3560/CDB/4500 and Catalyst 6500/6800

series switches
Contents
Introduction
Recommendation for Catalyst 2960/3560/CDB and 4500 platforms
Recommendation for Catalyst 6K Platforms
Engineering Special Releases

Introduction
This document is to help customers in finding a stable software release for the enterprise
switching platforms Catalyst 2960/3560/CDB/4500 and Catalyst 6500/6800 series switches.

The information in this document is not meant to be exhaustive & is intended to serve as general
guidance to customers especially in cases of mass deployments/upgrades.

Recommendation for Catalyst 2960/3560/CDB and 4500

platforms
The recommended IOS release mentioned in the below table are latest as of April 2020.

Product Family Product Details Recommended End of Software End of PSIRT EOL Lin
IOS release Maintenance Passed (Y/N)
Passed (Y/N)

Catalyst 2960X 15.2(7)E2 N N

Catalyst 2960XR 15.2(7)E2 N N

Catalyst 2960

Catalyst 2960L 15.2(7)E2 N N

Catalyst 2960P 15.2(7)E2 N N

Catalyst 2960C 15.2(7)E2 N N Click her

Catalyst 2960CX 15.2(7)E2 N N

 Catalyst 3560 Catalyst 3560CX 15.2(7)E2 N N

Catalyst CDB-8P 15.2(7)E2 N N

CDB

Catalyst CDB-8U 15.2(7)E2 N N

Sup 7-E 15.2(7)E2/3.11.2 Y N Click her

E

Catalyst 4500
Sup 7L-E 15.2(7)E2/3.11.2 Y N Click He
(Modular)
E

Sup 8-E 15.2(7)E2/3.11.2 N N Click He

E

Sup 8L-E 15.2(7)E2/3.11.2 N N Click He

E

Sup 9-E 15.2(7)E2/3.11.2 N N

E

Catalyst 4500-X Catalyst 4500-X 15.2(7)E2/3.11.2 N N Click her

(Fixed) E

* 15.2(7)E2/3.11.2E is the current active extended maitenance release.

Recommendation for Catalyst 6K Platforms

Product Family Product Details Recommended End of Software End of PSIRT EOL Lin
IOS release Maintenance Passed (Y/N)
Passed (Y/N)

VS-S720-10G 15.1(2)SY16 Y Y Click her

Click her
Catalyst 6500

Sup 2T 15.5(1)SY5 N N Click her

Sup 6T 15.5(1)SY5 N N

Catalyst 6800
C6880-X 15.5(1)SY5 N N Click her

C6840-X 15.5(1)SY5 N N Click her

*15.5(1)SY is the current active extended maitenance release.

Engineering Special Releases

In certain cases, critical bugs are made available on Engineering Special (ES) builds. These builds
are not available on CCO (cisco.com). If you are running into any issues specific to your
environment which is not already fixed in existing cisco.com releases, please contact Cisco
Customer Experience (CX) to explore the possibility of an Engineering Special (ES) code.
Engineering Special builds are meant to be deployed for a limited time frame and customers are
advised to move to the next maintenance rebuild as soon as it is available on cisco.com.
Engineering special builds are fully supported by the Cisco Customer Experience (CX) and the
Business Unit (BU).