containerd: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for containerd from containerd

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-05-07

What is containerd?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementcontainerd is available as a daemon for Linux and Windows. It manages the complete container lifecycle of its host system, from image transfer and storage to container execution and supervision to low-level storage to network attachments and beyond.
 

The entire lifecycle of containerd

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of containerd. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
containerd (containerd) release, version and end-of-life information
Xcontainerd (containerd) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product containerd (containerd)
 

Facts and figures about containerd

Product
containerd
Vendor
containerd
Latest version
2.3.0
Number of releases
14
Number of versions
271
Number of unstable versions
94
Number of versions affected by CVE
159
Licence
Apache License 2.0
Licence details
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/main/LICENSE
 
 

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