Hardware BIG-IP appliance reach EOSS, but the software version running on it not yet?
We have a BIG-IP i4600 hardware appliance, running with BIG-IP software v17.5.x i4600 is reaching End of Software Support (EOSS) by 2027/1/1 https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000133583 By definition of EOSS of hardware, it seems there will be no more software patch released for it after EOSS date: https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K5903 https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K8986 But software v17.5.x 's End of Software Development (EOSD) is 2 years later = 2029/1/1 https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K5903 That should mean there will still be new minor version releases for v17.5.x for 2 more years. So what's the impact of reaching 2027/1/1 for our case (i4600+v17.5)?