Supported Releases

• Support Policy
• [Releases without known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)](#releases-without-known-Common-Vulnerabilities-and Exposures)

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.

You can find available releases on the , and if you’re the adventurous type, you can learn about our development builds on the development builds wiki. You can find high-level releases notes for each minor and patch release .

where is increased for each release, and counts the number of patches for the current release. A patch is usually a small change relative to the release.

Istio does not guarantee that minor releases that fall outside the support window have all known CVEs patched. Please keep up-to-date and use a supported version.