Akeneo PIM v7 Reaches End of Support on 30 September 2026. Here Are the Options
The open-source PIM landscape changed twice in eighteen months. Most comparison articles still ranking for it haven't caught up. Current state, September 2026. The date Akeneo has published 30 September 2026 as the end of support for PIM v7. That is twenty-seven days from the date of writing. It is worth stating precisely what that does and does not mean, because both halves are currently circulating in isolation. It does mean a specific version reaches the end of its supported life on a specific date. Teams running v7 have an upgrade decision with a deadline attached. It does not mean Akeneo is discontinued or unsupported. Akeneo's own help centre states that the Community Edition continues to be supported. The 30 September date attaches to v7 across editions, not to the Community Edition as a product. Both are true simultaneously. Plan around the first. Ignore anyone selling urgency based on the second. The change most articles missed While attention was on Akeneo, the larger licensing shift happened elsewhere. Pimcore's Community Edition is no longer GPLv3. With Platform version 2025.1, Pimcore moved the Community Edition to the Pimcore Open Core License (POCL). Version 2024.4 was the last GPLv3 release. Under POCL, the Community Edition is free for non-production use, for non-profits, and for companies below EUR 5 million in annual revenue . Above that threshold, production use requires a commercial licence. This is the change that catches teams out. An evaluation done in 2023 recorded Pimcore CE as free and GPLv3. A company that has since grown past EUR 5M has a different licensing position than the one in its comparison sheet. Source: pimcore.com/en/products/edition/community Most ranking "open source PIM compared" articles still describe Pimcore CE as GPLv3. Publication dates are worth checking on anything in this space, including this article. The systems as they stand Akeneo Community Edition Licensed under OSL 3.0. Mature, widely deployed, and backed by th