3/about/release-cadence/>support policy</a>, LTS releases like 1.1 are supported for three months after the next LTS release. Since <a href=/v1.3/news/2019/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 security issues and critical bugs to 1.1, so we encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio (1.3.5). If you don&rsquo;t do this you may put yourself in the position of having to do a majo