Lifecycle guide for OpenResty from OpenResty Inc.

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-01-21

What is OpenResty?

Automate product release and end-of-life management

OpenResty® is a full-fledged web platform that integrates our enhanced version of the Nginx core, our enhanced version of LuaJIT, many carefully written Lua libraries, lots of high quality 3rd-party Nginx modules, and most of their external dependencies. It is designed to help developers easily build scalable web applications, web services, and dynamic web gateways.

The entire lifecycle of OpenResty

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

OpenResty (OpenResty Inc.) release, version and end-of-life information

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product OpenResty (OpenResty Inc.)

What is the OpenResty release strategy?

Even minor version numbers are always "stable" versions for which only major bug fixes are provided. Odd minor version numbers are always "mainline" versions for which new features, updates and bug fixes are provided. Maintenance ends automatically when a new "stable" or "mainline" version begins.