Upgrade or else, SAP warns as end of S/4HANA Compatibility Pack licensing nears

The majority of the packs are now redundant, though, said SAP’s SVP of ERP Product Marketing Maura Hameroff. “With our [S/4HANA] release of 2023, we delivered all of the scenarios. … We removed all of the technical blockers that were slowing customers down,” she said.

With those blocks removed, SAP made it clear in a 2022 blog post updated in February 2025 that both the right to use Compatibility Packs, and all support for them, will expire at the same time, regardless of the S/4HANA’s system’s maintenance status.

“Compatibility Scope use rights expire automatically December 31, 2025, for all SAP S/4HANA versions independent from their release date,” it said. “So irrespective of the SAP S/4HANA version, customers no longer have a contractual rightto use Compatibility Scope functionality after that point in time even if the affected SAP S/4HANA system release is still in mainstream maintenance. Furthermore, support stops for Compatibility Scope items with the expiration of the usage rights.”