Cubase 12 is coming in 2022

[steve]

@JBuck

So let me get this straight, if my eLicencer dongle breaks in a year or so, I have to buy the latest version of Cubase?.
RUDE!!!
And 10.5 will not be available as of the moment 12 is released?.
RUDER!!!
Nice one Steinberg. I was going to stick with 10.5 and now I cannot.
RUDEST!!!

No. See: Concerns about Steinberg Licensing - #279 by dspreadbury.

@dspreadbury

We have already said in our FAQs that we expect the transition to take a couple of years. You can be reassured that the eLicenser system will be available for the duration of the transition, and as Ben has stated explicitly above, we will have determined what to do about existing licenses that would be affected by the shut-down of the eLicenser servers, implemented a solution and communicated about it to our users well in advance of that shut-down. We are not going to leave our customers in the lurch.