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# Version Support Status

This page describes the support status of the significant versions of AngularJS.

AngularJS is planning one more significant release, version 1.7, and on July 1, 2018 it will enter a 3 year Long Term Support period.

### Until July 1st 2018

Any version branch not shown in the following table (e.g. 1.5.x) is no longer being developed.

Version | Status | Comments
--- | --- | ---
1.2.x | Security patches only | Last version to provide IE 8 support
1.6.x | Patch Releases | Minor features, bug fixes, security patches - no breaking changes
1.7.x | Active Development | 1.7.0 (not yet released) will be the last release of AngularJS to contain breaking changes

### After July 1st 2018

Any version branch not shown in the following table (e.g. 1.6.x) is no longer being developed.

Version | Status | Comments
--- | --- | ---
1.2.x | Long Term Support | Last version to provide IE 8 support
1.7.x | Long Term Support | See Long Term Support section below.

### Long Term Support

On July 1st 2018, we will enter a Long Term Support period for AngularJS.

At this time we will focus exclusively on providing fixes to bugs that satisfy at least one of the following criteria:

- A security flaw is detected in the 1.7.x branch of the framework
- One of the major browsers releases a version that will cause current production applications using AngularJS 1.7.x to stop working
- The jQuery library releases a version that will cause current production applications using AngularJS 1.7.x to stop working.

### Blog Post

You can read more about these plans in our blog post announcement.