Does RKE follows same End of Life End of Support lifecycle a rancher-users #rke2

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# rke2

bright-farmer-78407

01/23/2023, 10:07 PM

Does RKE follows same End-of-Life/End-of-Support lifecycle as vanilla k8s ? Or where can I query that information for every RKE release ?

creamy-pencil-82913

01/23/2023, 10:14 PM

Support for minors follows the upstream release cycle. When upstream stops putting out releases on a minor, so do we.

also, I am assuming you’re asking about RKE2 and not RKE since that’s what channel you’re in.

bright-farmer-78407

01/23/2023, 10:25 PM

Yes, RKE2

So RKE2 team does not maanage EOS/EOL separately ? Or is there some programmatic way to query this information ?

creamy-pencil-82913

01/23/2023, 10:29 PM

Nope. We put out a RKE2 release for every upstream Kubernetes release. Occasionally we will put out a r2 release to fix a critical issue between upstream patch releases, but that is infrequent. When upstream stops putting out releases for a minor, we stop putting them out as well.

there is no RKE2 release schedule or support lifecycle distinct from that maintained by upstream.

bright-farmer-78407

01/23/2023, 10:32 PM

thanks @creamy-pencil-82913 for quick help!

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