endar"/></svg><span>&nbsp;</span>May 5, 2020</span></p></div></div><p>According to Istio&rsquo;s <a href=/v1.7/about/release-cadence/>support policy</a>, LTS releases like 1.4 are supported for three months after the next LTS release. Since <a href=/v1.7/news/releases/1.5.x/announcing-1.5/>1.5 was released on March 5th</a>, support for 1.4 will end on June 5th, 2020.</p><p>At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.4, so we encourage you to upgrade to the latest