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Typefi product support lifecycle

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Caleb Clauset
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Every Typefi product has a lifecycle. The lifecycle begins when a product is released and ends when it is no longer supported. Typefi provides a minimum of two years of product support from the general availability date. Typefi supports Adobe® Creative Cloud® and Microsoft® Office releases on a rolling, three major version, schedule—support for new Adobe or Microsoft releases will become available within 90 days of their general availability.

What does End of Support mean?

End of support means that Typefi no longer provides technical support, including product or security updates, for all derivatives of a product or product version (that is, localized versions, minor upgrades, operating systems, or dot and double-dot releases).

What should I do now?

You may continue to use Typefi products after they are no longer supported, but Typefi will no longer provide updates or address any existing bugs or security issues in the software. Because of this, it is strongly recommended that you update to the latest versions. This will ensure that you benefit from all new functional enhancements and security updates, in addition to support for newer operating systems. Technical support for end of life products is also discontinued.

Typefi product support matrix

Supported products are indicated by a black circle ●. Products nearing their end of life are indicated by a gray circle ●. Unsupported products are indicated by a white circle ○.

Typefi Cloud Bronze (shared hosting)

  Version General
availability		 End
of life		 InDesign Server
2017 2015 2014 CC CS6 CS5.5 CS5 CS4
cloud.typefi.net 8.3 3 Sep 2017   ● ● ● ● ●      
  8.2 14 Oct 2016 3 Sep 2017 ● ● ● ● ●      
8.1 29 Apr 2016 14 Oct 2016   ○ ○ ○ ○      
8.0 24 Sep 2015 29 Apr 2016   ○ ○ ○ ○      
c.bronze.typefi.net 7.4 21 Nov 2013 31 Oct 2017     ● ● ●      
b.bronze.typefi.net 6.0 2 Oct 2012 24 Jan 2015         ○ ○ ○  
a.bronze.typefi.net 5.1 20 Oct 2011 29 Jul 2013           ○ ○ ○

 

Typefi Cloud Gold (private hosting), Typefi Workgroup, and Typefi Desktop

  Version General
availability		 End
of life		 InDesign and InDesign Server
2017 2015 2014 CC CS6 CS5.5 CS5 CS4
Typefi 8 8.3 22 Aug 2017 31 Aug 2019 ● ● ● ● ●      
  8.2 1 Sep 2016 30 Sep 2018 ● ● ● ● ●      
8.1 2 Mar 2016 31 Mar 2018   ● ● ● ●      
8.0 23 Sep 2015 30 Sep 2017   ● ● ● ●      
Typefi Publish 7.4 29 Jun 2015 31 Oct 2017     ● ● ●      
  7.3 7 Nov 2012     ○ ○ ○      
7.2 15 Aug 2014     ○ ○ ○      
7.1 30 Jun 2014       ○ ○      
7.0 14 Oct 2013       ○ ○      
6.0 23 Sep 2012 31 Dec 2015         ○ ○ ○  
5.1 25 Sep 2011 30 Nov 2013            ○ ○ ○
5.0 23 Feb 2011             ○ ○

 

Other Plug-ins

Product name Version General
availability		 End
of life		 InDesign
2017 2015 2014 CC CS6 CS5.5 CS5 CS4
AutoFit 8 5 Jan 2017   ○ ○ ○ ○ ○      
  6 27 Feb 2013 5 Jan 2017         ○      
2.1 17 Jan 2012 27 Feb 2013           ○ ○  
2 10 Sep 2011 17 Jan 2012               ○
Typefitter 4 11 Jan 2016 † ● ● ● ● ○      
TypeFitter Pro ‡ 3 19 Sep 2008 11 Jan 2016     ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
   2 5 Jun 2007 19 Sep 2008         ○ ○ ○ ○
1 12 Jun 2005 5 Jun 2007                

† Typefitter for InDesign CS6 was made end of life on 6 April 2017, but remains available as a free (unsupported) download.

‡ Typefi acquired TypeFitter Pro from Teacup Software in late 2015 and re-released it as Typefitter in early 2016.

 

Third-party compatibility matrix

Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign comes as two products: InDesign, a desktop application for designing page layouts for print or digital distribution; and InDesign Server, a service for programmatically creating automated documents based on what you've created with InDesign. For purposes of product support, "InDesign" refers to both InDesign (desktop) and InDesign Server.

Typefi supports Adobe Creative Cloud releases on a rolling, three major versions, schedule—support for new Adobe releases will become available within 90 days of their general availability.

  Version General
availability		 End
of life †		 Typefi compatibility
8.3 8.2 8.1 8.0 7.4 7.3 7.2 7.1 7.0 6.0 5.1 5.0
InDesign CC 2017 12 2 Nov 2016 31 Jan 2020 ● ●                    
InDesign CC 2015  11 15 Jun 2015 31 Jan 2019 ● ● ● ●                
InDesign CC 2014 10 18 Jun 2013 31 Jan 2018 ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○          
InDesign CC 9 15 Jun 2013 31 Oct 2017 ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ ○      
InDesign CS6 8 23 Apr 2012 31 Oct 2017 ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ ○ ○    
InDesign CS5.5 7.5 3 May 2011 30 May 2016                   ○ ○  
InDesign CS5 7 30 Apr 2010 12 Apr 2015                   ○ ○ ○
InDesign CS4 6 20 Jan 2009 30 Feb 2014                     ○ ○

† Adobe Support Policy limits product support to the latest release of Creative Cloud. Support for previous Creative Cloud releases or legacy Creative Suite® products is available only with an active Adobe Gold Support contract.

 

Microsoft Word

Typefi supports Microsoft Office releases on a rolling, three major versions, schedule—support for new Microsoft releases will become available within 90 days of their general availability.

  Version General
availability		 End
of life †		 Typefi compatibility
8.3 8.2 8.1 8.0 7.4 7.3 7.2 7.1 7.0 6.0 5.1 5.0
Word 2016 ‡ 16 22 Sep 2015 14 Oct 2025 ● ●                    
Word 2013 15 9 Jan 2013 11 Apr 2023 ● ● ● ●                
Word 2010 14 15 Jul 2010 14 Oct 2020 ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○          
Word 2007 12 27 Jan 2007 10 Oct 2017 ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ ○ ○    
Word 2003 11 17 Nov 2003 8 Apr 2014                     ○ ○

† Microsoft Lifecycle Policy allows for 10 years of product support (a minimum of five years Mainstream Support and a minimum of five years Extended Support).

‡ One of the benefits of Office 365® is that Microsoft provides new features for Office apps on a regular basis. The schedule for these updates depends on your selected update channel. Typefi only certifies compatibility with Microsoft Word 2016 on the Semi-annual update channel. While the Monthly (formerly "Current") channel provides new or updated features, and security and non-security updates at least once each month, these releases are only supported until the next monthly channel release is available and may break compatibility with Typefi Writer. For these reasons, Typefi strongly recommends the Semi-annual (formerly "Deferred") update channel that also provides new or updated features, and security and non-security updates, but on a slower cadence of two (formerly three) updates each year while extending support to 18 months (starting from first release).

 

Operating systems

 Product name Version General
availability		 Typefi compatibility
8.3 8.2 8.1 8.0 7.4 7.3 7.2 7.1 7.0 6.0 5.1 5.0
macOS 10.12  20 Sep 2016 ● ●                    
   10.11 30 Sep 2015  ● ● ● ●                
10.10 16 Oct 2014  ● ● ● ● ● ○            
10.9  22 Oct 2013 ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○        
10.8 25 Jul 2012          ● ○ ○ ○ ○      
10.7 20 Jul 2011          ● ○ ○ ○ ○ ○    
10.6 28 Aug 2009                    ○ ○ ○
10.5 26 Oct 2007                      ○ ○
Windows  10 29 Jul 2015  ● ● ● ●                
  8 26 Oct 2012  ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ ○      
7 22 Oct 2009  ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Vista  30 Jan 2007                   ○ ○ ○
XP 25 Oct 2001                    ○ ○ ○
Windows Server 2016 12 Oct 2016  ● ● ● ●                
    2012 4 Sep 2012  ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ ○      
2008 27 Feb 2008  ● ● ● ● ● ○ ○ ○ ○ ○    
2003 24 Apr 2003                      ○ ○

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