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Guillaume_Rouss
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Nov 20, 2025

TMOS 21.0.0 compatibility

Hello.   The BigIP release matrix and the The F5 hardware/software compatibility matrix documents explicitely  declare ix000 hardware serie as not compatible with TMOS 21.0.0. However, IHealth prom...
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leemedz
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Nov 20, 2025

TMOS 21.0.0 is only a short term release so I wouldn't consider running this for anything other than testing purposes regardless of whether it is compatible or otherwise. TMOS 21.1.0 will follow at some point but no idea if that would include the ix000 hardware - my suspicion is that it won't.

 

Note: Beginning with BIG-IP 21.0.0, Short-Term Stability Releases will have a software lifecycle of 9 months—reduced from 12 months with previous software versions. Once released, Long-Term Stability Releases for BIG-IP 21.x will have a three-year Standard Support phase from First customer ship date. 

 

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