:href="/v1.7/img/icons.svg#calendar"/></svg><span>&nbsp;</span>November 11, 2019</span></p></div></div><p>According to Istio&rsquo;s <a href=/v1.7/about/release-cadence/>support policy</a>, LTS releases like 1.2 are supported for three months after the next LTS release. Since <a href=/v1.7/news/releases/1.3.x/announcing-1.3/>1.3 was released on September 12th</a>, support for 1.2 will end on December 13th, 2019.</p><p>At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.2