ons</a></li></ul><h2 id=support-policy>Support policy</h2><p>We produce new builds of Istio for each commit. Around once a quarter, we build a minor release and run through several
additional tests as well as release qualification. We release patch versions for issues found in minor releases.</p><p>The various types of releases represent a different product quality level and level of assistance from the Istio community.
In this context, <em>support</em> means that the community will produce patch releases f