End of Life Notices#
This page lists NVIDIA AI Enterprise components that have reached or are approaching Deprecated or End of Life. For definitions of lifecycle states (Supported, Deprecated, End of Support, End of Life), refer to Lifecycle State Definitions.
Component |
Current State |
Action Required By |
|---|---|---|
Deprecated hardware (Infra 8.0+) — V100, RTX 4000 SFF Ada, RTX A4000, Quadro RTX 8000 / 6000 / 4000 |
Removed starting in 8.0 (still supported on 7.5 LTSB and 4.10 LTSB) |
Migrate or remain on a LTSB branch |
NVIDIA NIM Retrieval QA E5 Embedding v5 |
Deprecated |
January 2027 (PB 6) |
NVIDIA Morpheus |
End of Support |
Immediate |
NVIDIA NIM Llama-3.1-70b-instruct |
End of Support (Model Replaced) |
Immediate |
NVIDIA Optimized TensorFlow 2 Containers |
End of Support |
Immediate |
Deprecated Hardware (Infra 8.0+)#
The following GPUs are no longer supported for vGPU for Compute starting in NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra 8.0 (and remain unsupported on Infra 8.1). They remain supported on the LTSB branches (7.5 LTSB and 4.10 LTSB) for the remainder of those LTSB support windows.
Components |
|
Current State |
Removed from supported GPUs starting in Infra 8.0; still supported on Infra 7.5 LTSB and Infra 4.10 LTSB. |
Deprecation Announced |
May 2026 (Infra 8.1 GA, applied retroactively to Infra 8.0 as a hotfix) |
Last Supported Production Branch Release |
None on the 8.x line — these GPUs are removed from 8.0 onward. |
First Unsupported Release |
Infra 8.0 |
Continuing LTSB Support |
Infra 7.5 LTSB and Infra 4.10 LTSB continue to support these GPUs through their LTSB support windows. |
Timeline
November 2025 — Original Infra 8.0 GA shipped with V100 and the 5 workstation-class GPUs supported.
May 2026 — Infra 8.1 GA removes V100 (Volta) and the 5 workstation-class GPUs from the supported GPU list. The change is also applied retroactively to Infra 8.0 as a post-publish hotfix so the 8.x line is consistent.
Ongoing — Infra 7.5 LTSB and Infra 4.10 LTSB continue to support these GPUs for the remainder of their LTSB support windows.
Migration Path
Customers running these GPUs have two options:
Migrate to a currently supported GPU on Infra 8.x:
Turing — NVIDIA T4 (16 GB)
Ampere — NVIDIA A10, A16, A30, A40, A100 (40 GB / 80 GB), RTX A5000, RTX A6000
Ada Lovelace — NVIDIA L4, L20, L40, L40S, RTX 5000 / 5880 / 6000 Ada Generation
Hopper — NVIDIA H100, H200, H800, H20
Blackwell — NVIDIA B200, B300, RTX PRO 4500 / 6000 Blackwell
Remain on a NVIDIA AI Enterprise Infra LTSB branch (7.5 LTSB or 4.10 LTSB) where these GPUs continue to be supported through the LTSB support window.
Refer to the Infra 8.1 Release Notes “Deprecations and Removals” section and the Infra 8.1 Support Matrix for the complete list of supported GPUs on 8.x.
Action Required
Choose one of the two migration options above. The deprecated GPUs have been removed from the 8.x documentation set (Support Matrix, vGPU types reference, vGPU features tables, glossary, and Linux memory limitations) and from the Infrastructure Lifecycle and Compatibility Explorer for Infra 8.0 and 8.1.
NVIDIA NIM Retrieval QA E5 Embedding v5#
Component |
NVIDIA NIM Retrieval QA E5 Embedding v5 |
Current State |
Deprecated |
Deprecation Announced |
January 2027 (PB 6) |
Current Version (PB 25h2) |
Timeline
October 2024 — E5 Embedding v5 version 1.2 included in Production Branch - October 2024 (PB 24h2).
May 2025 — E5 Embedding v5 version 1.8.0 included in Production Branch - May 2025 (PB 25h1).
October 2025 — E5 Embedding v5 continues in Production Branch - October 2025 (PB 25h2) alongside NVIDIA Retrieval QA Llama 3.2 1B Embedding v2.
January 2026 — E5 Embedding v5 version 1.11.2 released in PB 25h2.
January 2027 — Production Branch 6 reaches End of Life. E5 Embedding v5 reaches End of Support.
Migration Path
Transition to NVIDIA Retrieval QA Llama 3.2 1B Embedding v2, which is available alongside E5 Embedding v5 in Production Branch - October 2025 (PB 25h2).
Action Required
Plan migration to NVIDIA Retrieval QA Llama 3.2 1B Embedding v2 before January 2027 (PB 6). After deprecation, E5 Embedding v5 will no longer receive CVE patches, bug fixes, or updates.
NVIDIA NIM Llama-3.1-70b-instruct#
Component |
NVIDIA NIM Llama-3.1-70b-instruct inference microservice |
Current State |
End of Support (Model Replaced) |
End of Support Date |
July 2026 |
Last Supported Version |
1.10 |
Timeline
October 2024 — Llama-3.1-70b-instruct NIM version 1.3 included in Production Branch - October 2024 (PB 24h2).
May 2025 — Llama-3.1-70b-instruct NIM version 1.10 included in Production Branch - May 2025 (PB 25h1).
October 2025 — Llama-3.1-70b-instruct included in Production Branch - October 2025 (PB 25h2).
July 2026 — Production Branch - October 2025 (PB 25h2) reached End of Life. Llama-3.1-70b-instruct reaches End of Support.
Migration Path
Transition to NVIDIA NIM Llama-3.3-70b-instruct, which is available in the latest Production Branch. Alternatively, use the Multi-LLM NIM for flexible model deployment.
Action Required
Customers still using NVIDIA NIM Llama-3.1-70b-instruct should migrate to NVIDIA NIM Llama-3.3-70b-instruct or a supported NIM model. No further updates will be provided for this model after July 2026.
NVIDIA Morpheus#
Component |
NVIDIA Morpheus cybersecurity AI framework container images |
Current State |
End of Support |
End of Support Date |
January 2026 |
Last Supported Version |
25.02-runtime |
Timeline
May 2024 — Morpheus 24.02-runtime included in Production Branch - May 2024 (PB 24h1).
October 2024 — Morpheus 24.06-runtime included in Production Branch - October 2024 (PB 24h2).
May 2025 — Morpheus 25.02-runtime included in Production Branch - May 2025 (PB 25h1). This was the final Production Branch to include Morpheus.
October 2025 — Morpheus was not included in Production Branch - October 2025 (PB 25h2).
January 2026 — Production Branch - May 2025 (PB 25h1) reached End of Life. Morpheus is no longer supported within NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
Migration Path
Transition to the Morpheus GitHub repository, which is maintained on a best-effort basis. Community contributions are accepted, and CVE fixes are provided as possible. No new feature development is planned.
Action Required
Customers still using NVIDIA Morpheus containers should migrate to an alternative solution immediately. No further CVE patches, bug fixes, or updates will be provided.
NVIDIA Optimized TensorFlow 2 Containers#
Component |
NVIDIA Optimized TensorFlow 2 container images |
Current State |
End of Support |
End of Support Date |
July 2025 |
Last Supported Version |
24.08-tf2-py3 |
Timeline
February 2025 — TensorFlow 2 24.02 release was the final Feature Branch update.
June 2025 — October 2024 Production Branch (24h2) received its final monthly security update.
July 2025 — TensorFlow 2 containers reached End of Support and are no longer supported within NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
Migration Path
Transition to alternative solutions such as JAX with Keras. Refer to the NVIDIA JAX Toolbox for guidance on JAX and the NGC Catalog for other supported frameworks within NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
Action Required
Customers still using NVIDIA Optimized TensorFlow 2 containers should migrate to a supported framework immediately. No further CVE patches, bug fixes, or updates will be provided.