p 27, 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 1.17 are supported until six weeks after the N+2 minor release (1.19 in this case). <a href=/v1.23/news/releases/1.19.x/announcing-1.19/>Istio 1.19 was released on September 5th, 2023</a>, and support for 1.17 will end on October 27th, 2023.</p><p>At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.17, so we encourage yo