 19th, 2019</h1><p>Upcoming Istio 1.1 end of life announcement.</p></div><p class=post-author>Aug 15, 2019</p><div><p>According to Istio&rsquo;s <a href=/v1.12/docs/releases/supported-releases#supported-releases/>support policy</a>, LTS releases like 1.1 are supported for three months after the next LTS release. Since <a href=/v1.12/news/releases/1.2.x/announcing-1.2/>1.2 was released on June 18th</a>, support for 1.1 will end on September 19th, 2019.</p><p>At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for 