Azure Storage Explorer support lifecycle and policy

This document covers the support lifecycle and policy for Azure Storage Explorer.

Update schedule and process

Azure Storage Explorer is released four to six times a year. Microsoft may also bypass this schedule to release fixes for critical issues.

Storage Explorer checks for updates every hour, and downloads them when they're available. User acceptance is required, however, to start the install process. If users choose to update at a different time, they can manually check for update. On Windows and Linux, users can check for updates by selecting Check for Updates from the Help menu. On macOS, Check for Updates can be found under the app menu. Users may also directly go to the Storage Explorer download page to download and install the latest release.

We strongly recommend to always use the latest versions of Storage Explorer. If an issue is preventing you from updating to the latest version of Storage Explorer, open an issue on our GitHub.

Support lifecycle

Storage Explorer is governed by the Modern Lifecycle Policy. It's expected that users keep their installation of Storage Explorer up to date. Staying up to date ensures that users have the latest capabilities, performance enhancements, security, and service reliability.

Starting with version 1.14.1, any Storage Explorer release that is greater than 12 months old will be considered out of support. All releases before 1.14.1 will be considered out of support starting on July 14, 2021. Versions that are out of support are no longer guaranteed to work fully as designed and expected. For a list of all releases, their release date, and their end of support date, see Releases.

Starting with version 1.13.0, an in-app alert may be displayed once a version is approximately one month away from being out of support. The alert encourages users to update to the latest version of Storage Explorer. Once a version is out of support, the in-app alert may be displayed on each start-up.

Releases

This table describes the release date and the end of support date for each release of Azure Storage Explorer.

Storage Explorer version Release date End of support date
v1.22.1 January 25, 2022 January 25, 2023
v1.22.0 December 14, 2021 December 14, 2022
v1.21.3 October 25, 2021 October 25, 2022
v1.21.2 September 28, 2021 September 28, 2022
v1.21.1 September 22, 2021 September 22, 2022
v1.21.0 September 8, 2021 September 8, 2022
v1.20.1 July 23, 2021 July 23, 2022
v1.20.0 June 25, 2021 June 25, 2022
v1.19.1 April 29, 2021 April 29, 2022
v1.19.0 April 15, 2021 April 15, 2022
v1.18.1 March 4, 2021 March 4, 2022
v1.18.0 March 1, 2021 March 1, 2022
v1.17.0 December 15, 2020 December 15, 2021
v1.16.0 November 10, 2020 November 10, 2021
v1.15.1 September 2, 2020 September 2, 2021
v1.15.0 August 27, 2020 August 27, 2021
v1.14.2 July 16, 2020 July 16, 2021
v1.14.1 July 14, 2020 July 14, 2021
v1.14.0 June 24, 2020 July 14, 2021
v1.13.1 May 18, 2020 July 14, 2021
v1.13.0 May 1, 2020 July 14, 2021
v1.12.0 January 16, 2020 July 14, 2021
v1.11.2 December 17, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.11.1 November 20, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.11.0 November 4, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.10.1 September 19, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.10.0 September 12, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.9.0 July 1, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.8.1 May 10, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.8.0 May 2, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.7.0 March 5, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.6.2 January 8, 2019 July 14, 2021
v1.6.1 December 18, 2018 July 14, 2021
v1.6.0 December 4, 2018 July 14, 2021
v1.5.0 October 29, 2018 July 14, 2021
v1.4.4 October 15, 2018 July 14, 2021
v1.4.2 September 24, 2018 July 14, 2021
v1.4.1 August 28, 2018 July 14, 2021
v1.3.1 July 11, 2018 July 14, 2021
v1.2.0 June 12, 2018 July 14, 2021
v1.1.0 May 9, 2018 July 14, 2021
v1.0.0 (and older) April 16, 2018 July 14, 2021