chema.org/BlogPosting><div class=header-content><h1>Support for Istio 1.6 ends on November 21st, 2020</h1><p>Upcoming Istio 1.6 end of life announcement.</p></div><p class=post-author>Oct 20, 2020</p><div><p>According to Istio&rsquo;s <a href=/v1.11/docs/releases/supported-releases#supported-releases/>support policy</a>, LTS releases like 1.6 are supported for three months after the next LTS release. Since <a href=/v1.11/news/releases/1.7.x/announcing-1.7/>1.7 was released on August 21st</a>, support for 1.