--- title: Support for Istio 1.2 ends on December 13th, 2019 subtitle: Support Announcement description: Upcoming Istio 1.2 end of life announcement. publishdate: 2019-11-11 aliases: - /news/2019/announcing-1.2-eol --- According to Istio's [support policy](/docs/releases/supported-releases#supported-releases), LTS releases like 1.2 are supported for three months after the next LTS release. Since [1.3 was released on September 12th](/news/releases/1.3.x/announcing-1.3/), support for 1.2 will end on December 13th, 2019. At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.2, 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.