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# Version Support Status

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

On July 1, 2018 AngularJS entered a 3 year Long Term Support period.
UPDATE (2020-07-27):
Due to COVID-19 affecting teams migrating from AngularJS, we are extending the LTS by six months (until December 31, 2021).

Any version branch not shown in the following table (e.g. 1.7.x) is no longer being developed.

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

### Long Term Support

On July 1st 2018, AngularJS entered a Long Term Support period.

We now focus exclusively on providing fixes to bugs that satisfy at least one of the following criteria:

- A security flaw is detected in the 1.8.x branch of the framework
- One of the major browsers releases a version that will cause current production applications using AngularJS 1.8.x to stop working
- The jQuery library releases a version that will cause current production applications using AngularJS 1.8.x to stop working.

AngularJS 1.2.x will get a new version if and only if a new severe security issue is discovered.

### Blog Post

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

### Extended Long Term Support

If you need support for AngularJS beyond December 2021, you should consider:

- XLTS.dev