March  21, 2025

TIBCO hereby announces that it will end support for the following product version(s), as of 11:59 pm Pacific Time on March 31, 2026:

•   TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (BW) 5.14.0 and 5.14.1

The purpose of this notification is to officially communicate this retirement and request that you upgrade, as soon as possible, to a supported release of the product.  Check the TIBCO Product Download Site (https://www.tibco.com/downloads) for the most recent release when planning your upgrade.

Until the retirement date, Support will answer product questions, however product updates will not be provided.  After the retirement date has been reached, new cases reported against the retired release(s) will no longer be accepted and existing cases under investigation will be closed.

Available hot fixes and knowledge base articles will continue to be available to all customers with product maintenance beyond the retirement date.

Please contact TIBCO Support for any clarifications regarding this support policy.

NOTE: The current release is TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (BW)  5.16.1 (LTS) . For details, please refer to the BW 5.16.1 Release Notes, we recommend our BW 5.14.x customers to start planning their upgrade as soon as possible  to our new Long Term Support BW version 5.16.1, please review our TIBCO LTS policy 

Highlights of 5.16.1 Release and reason for all BusinessWorks 5.x customers to upgrade

• 5.16.1  is an LTS release of BW5, support available till 2030 please review our TIBCO LTS policy.
• Support for Oracle Java 17.x
• Support for OpenTelemetry Metrics through TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5 engine
• Support for OpenTelemetry Tracing through TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5 engine
• Support for SSL for TCP palette.

Additional Information

1. End of Support Information for TIBCO Products  https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Tibco-KnowledgeArticle-RetirementNotice-40036
2. Support Policy for TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 5.x.  https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Support-Policy-for-TIBCO-ActiveMatrix-BusinessWorks-5-x

Support Policy for TIBCO BusinessWorks 5.14.x