Azure Kubernetes Service

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Azure Kubernetes Service 1.36 is the newest actively maintained release. 6 of 16 tracked cycles remain supported. The next cycle scheduled to reach end-of-life is 1.31, on November 1, 2025.

Latest version

1.36

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Actively maintained cycles

of 16 tracked

Total cycles tracked

since Aug 18, 2021

Support pattern

How Azure Kubernetes Service has behaved across the cycles tracked here, rather than what its policy documents state. Useful for judging how much runway a version is likely to have before you commit to it.

Typical support window

12 months

median of 16 completed cycles

New cycle roughly every

4 months

median gap between releases

Compared with service

−33 mo

shorter than the service median

Next end of life

82 days

Azure Kubernetes Service 1.34

Support windows have stayed consistent across the tracked history, so past cycles are a reasonable guide to what a new one will get.

Computed from release and end-of-life dates tracked for Azure Kubernetes Service. Medians are used rather than averages so one unusually short or long release does not skew the figure. Cycles with no recorded end-of-life date are excluded from the support window.

Release lifecycle

Actively maintainedSecurity support onlyEnd of life

Today

1.36Latest

1.36 · —

1.35

1.35 · —

1.34

1.34 · —

1.33

EOL Jul 31, 2026

1.32

EOL Mar 31, 2026

1.31

EOL Nov 1, 2025

1.30

EOL Aug 22, 2025

1.29

EOL Mar 31, 2025

1.28

EOL Jan 31, 2025

1.27

EOL Jul 31, 2024

1.26

EOL Apr 11, 2024

1.25

EOL Jan 14, 2024

1.24

EOL Jul 31, 2023

1.23

EOL Apr 2, 2023

1.22

EOL Dec 4, 2022

1.21

EOL Jul 31, 2022

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