0.</p><p>At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.5, so we encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio (1.26.3). If you don&rsquo;t do this you may put yourself in the position of having to do a major upgrade on a short timeframe to pick up a critical fix.</p><p>We care about you and your clusters, so please be kind to yourself and upgrade.</p></div><nav class=pagenav><div class=left><a title="Istio 1.5 end of life announcement." href=/v1.26/news/s