true href=/v1.22/blog/2021/extended-support/extended_support.png title="Extended Support and Upgrades"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.22/blog/2021/extended-support/extended_support.png alt="Extended Support and Upgrades"></a></div><figcaption>Extended Support and Upgrades</figcaption></figure><p>During this extended period of support, Istio 1.9 will receive CVE and critical bug fixes only, as our goal is simply to provide users with time to migrate off the release and on to 1.10 or 1.11. And speaking