--- title: Support for Istio 1.20 ends on June 25, 2024 subtitle: Support Announcement description: Upcoming Istio 1.20 end of life announcement. publishdate: 2024-05-24 --- According to Istio's [support policy](/docs/releases/supported-releases#support-policy), minor releases like 1.20 are supported until six weeks after the N+2 minor release (1.22 in this case). [Istio 1.22 was released on May 13th, 2024](/news/releases/1.22.x/announcing-1.22/), and support for 1.20 will end on June 25th, 2024. At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.20, 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.