or>Nov 29, 2023</p><div><p>According to Istio&rsquo;s <a href=/v1.23/docs/releases/supported-releases/#support-policy>support policy</a>, minor releases like 1.18 are supported until six weeks after the N+2 minor release (1.20 in this case). <a href=/v1.23/news/releases/1.20.x/announcing-1.20/>Istio 1.20 was released on November 14th, 2023</a>, and support for 1.18 will end on December 26th, 2023.</p><p>At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.18, so we encour