Kubernetes Linux Foundation Application Release Version Major Minor Patch End-of-life EOL Support End-of-support EOS Maintenance End-of-maintenance EOM Security Long-term support LTS Vulnerabilities Common vulnerabilities & exposures CVE Security product-release-end-of-life-overview.xml free-trial.xml 📅 Last update on 2025-08-08 What is Kubernetes?   The entire lifecycle of Kubernetes The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Kubernetes. 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. Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Kubernetes (Linux Foundation)   The Kubernetes project maintains release branches for the most recent three minor releases (1.30, 1.29, 1.28). Kubernetes 1.19 and newer receive approximately 1 year of patch support. Kubernetes 1.18 and older received approximately 9 months of patch support. Product Kubernetes Vendor Linux Foundation Latest version 1.33.3 Number of releases 56 Number of versions 1177 Number of unstable versions 647 Number of versions affected by CVE 448 Licence Apache License 2.0 Licence details https://github.com/kyverno/kyverno?tab=Apache-2.0-1-ov-file Product site Release info Version command Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes