diff --git a/content/en/news/support/announcing-1.6-eol/index.md b/content/en/news/support/announcing-1.6-eol/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..67cc0669e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/news/support/announcing-1.6-eol/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +title: Support for Istio 1.6 ends on November 21st, 2020 +subtitle: Support Announcement +description: Upcoming Istio 1.6 end of life announcement. +publishdate: 2020-10-20 +aliases: + - /news/2020/announcing-1.6-eol +--- + +According to Istio's [support policy](/about/release-cadence/), LTS releases like 1.6 are supported for three months after the next LTS release. Since [1.7 was released on August 21st](/news/releases/1.7.x/announcing-1.7/), support for 1.6 will end on November 21st, 2020. + +At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.6, so we encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio ({{}}). If you don't do this you may put yourself in the position of having to do a major upgrade on a short timeframe to pick up a critical fix. + +We care about you and your clusters, so please be kind to yourself and upgrade.