Lifecycle guide for Vue.js from Evan You

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-06-05

What is Vue.js?

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Vue.js features an incrementally adaptable architecture that focuses on declarative rendering and component composition. The core library is focused on the view layer only. Advanced features required for complex applications such as routing, state management and build tooling are offered via officially maintained supporting libraries and packages.

The entire lifecycle of Vue.js

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Vue.js. 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.

Vue.js (Evan You) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Vue.js (Evan You)

What is the Vue.js release strategy?

Vue does not have a fixed release cycle: * Patch releases are released as needed. * Minor releases always contain new features, with a typical time frame of 3~6 months in between. Minor releases always go through a beta pre-release phase. * Major releases will be announced ahead of time, and will go through an early discussion phase and alpha / beta pre-release phases. See [Releases](https://vuejs.org/about/releases.html) and [Vue 2 LTS, EOL & Extended Support](https://v2.vuejs.org/lts/) for more.