---
title: Support for Istio 1.18 has ended
subtitle: Support Announcement
description: Istio 1.18 end of life announcement.
publishdate: 2024-01-04
---

As [previously announced](/news/support/announcing-1.18-eol/), support for Istio 1.18 has now officially ended.

At this point we will no longer back-port fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.18. We highly recommend that
you upgrade to the latest version of Istio ({{<istio_release_name>}}) if you haven't already.