quent Upgrades.</p></div><p class=post-author>Sep 3, 2021 <span>| </span>By Mitch Connors - Google, Lin Sun - Solo.io</p><div><p>In keeping with our 2021 theme of improving Day 2 Istio operations, the Istio team has been evaluating extending the support window for our releases to give users more time to upgrade. For starters, we are extending the support window of Istio 1.9 by six weeks, to October 5, 2021. We hope that this additional support window will allow the many users who are currently using Istio 1