# Kubernetes Upgrade Recommended

Kops has established a deprecation policy for Kubernetes version support.
Kops 1.18 will drop support for Kubernetes 1.8 and below.


You are running a version of kubernetes that we recommend upgrading.

Please see the [instructions for how to upgrade kubernetes](https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/operations/updates_and_upgrades/#upgrading-kubernetes)

Please see the deprecation policy [GitHub issue](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/issues/7999) for more information and to leave feedback.