What are the PA-DSS Expiry Dates?
The Expiry Date for PA-DSS Validated Payment Applications is the date by which a vendor must have the application reassessed against the current PA-DSS requirements in order for the application to remain listed as ?Acceptable for New Deployments? on the PCI SSC website.
New submissions of application validations using PA-DSS 2.0 will be accepted until December 31st, 2014 and will have an Expiry Date of October 28th, 2016.
New submissions of application validations using PA-DSS 3.0 will be accepted from January 2014 until December 31st, 2017 and will have an Expiry Date of October 28th, 2019.
After the Expiry Date, the application will be listed as ?Acceptable only for Pre-Existing Deployments.? See FAQ #1195 for an explanation of the difference between an application which is ?Acceptable for New Deployments? and one which is ?Acceptable only for Pre-Existing Deployments.?