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Please be aware that we expect our on-premise customers to make a reasonable effort to host Pure on up-to-date components. This also includes components not explicitly mentioned below if they are involved in serving requests to the Pure web applications, for example Apache, Nginx, and other network components. Being able to provide an effective support service presupposes this, and in general the first step in any Pure issue where it is not case will be to rectify this.

Upcoming deprecation

As announced at the Pure Conference 2023, the last on-premises feature release for Pure will be in February 2026 with version 5.35.0 (Ref1).

To receive new features for Pure after this date, your institution will need to migrate to a hosted solution managed by the Elsevier Pure team. The process for migrating to a cloud solution is briefly covered in (Ref1) with more details available in (Ref2, Ref3).

Supported Platforms

Platform	Supported versions	Recommended version	Notes
Java
Oracle JDK all versions of Pure OpenJDK Pure 5.14 or later	Java 17 (Pure 5.26 or later)	OpenJDK 17.0.8 (Pure 5.26 or later)
Tomcat
Apache Tomcat	9 (Pure 5.23 or later)	Tomcat 9.0.65 (Pure 5.23 or later)
Operating system
Microsoft Windows	Not supported from Pure 5.29
Unix (Linux / Solaris / etc)	Amazon Linux 2		Pure will work on any Unix system that supports the required Java and Tomcat versions
Database
Oracle	Not supported from Pure 5.31
PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL 14
SQLServer	Not supported from Pure 5.31
Web browsers
Chrome	Latest stable version
Edge	Latest stable version
Safari	Latest stable version
Mozilla Firefox	Latest stable version
Repository Integration
EPrints	3.3 3.2 3.1		Requires patching of the EPrints software. We provide the patch as part of the Pure software package.
DSpace	9.x, 8.x (Pure 5.33.3 or later) 7.x (Pure 5.27 or later) 6.1 (Deprecated by 5.30) 5.5 (Deprecated by 5.30) 4.1, 4.2 (Deprecated by 5.30) 3.2 (Deprecated by 5.30)		Requires patching of the DSpace software if the LNI interface is used. We provide the patch as part of the Pure software package. We will not be bug fixing older versions in 5.30.x and in 5.31.0 you can expect them to be removed completely.

Published at September 08, 2025