---
title: Support for Istio 1.9 has ended
subtitle: Support Announcement
description: Istio 1.9 end of life announcement.
publishdate: 2021-10-08
---

As [previously announced](/news/support/revised-1.9-eol/), support for Istio 1.9 has now officially ended.

At this point we will no longer back-port fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.9, so we heartily encourage
you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio ({{<istio_release_name>}}) if you haven't already.