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

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

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-16

What is Backstage?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementBackstage is an open platform for building developer portals. Powered by a centralized software catalog, Backstage restores order to your microservices and infrastructure and enables your product teams to ship high-quality code quickly — without compromising autonomy.
 

The entire lifecycle of Backstage

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Backstage. 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.
Backstage (Spotify) release, version and end-of-life information
XBackstage (Spotify) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Backstage (Spotify)
 

Facts and figures about Backstage

Product
Backstage
Vendor
Spotify
Latest version
1.50.1
Number of releases
2
Number of versions
530
Number of unstable versions
201
Number of versions affected by CVE
222
Licence
Apache License 2.0
Licence details
https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0
 
 

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