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@ -60,14 +60,18 @@ Consul is A, and version B is released.
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We encourage organizations to use a maintained version of Consul |
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so that they benefit from bug and security fixes in minor releases. |
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Standard major releases of Consul are maintained for approximately 1 year. |
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Consul Enterprise [Long Term Support (LTS)](/consul/docs/enterprise/long-term-support) |
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releases are maintained for approximately 2 years. |
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### Consul community edition |
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For Consul community edition users, |
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consistently operating a maintained version requires a major version upgrade at least every 8 months. |
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Each upgrade can jump at most 2 major versions, and Consul has a major version release every 4 months. |
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Therefore, the maximum upgrade jump catches up on 8 months of major releases. |
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consistently operating a maintained version requires upgrading |
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every 4 months to the latest major release. |
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### Consul Enterprise |
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Standard major releases of Consul Enterprise are maintained for approximately 1 year. |
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[Consul Enterprise Long Term Support (LTS)](/consul/docs/enterprise/long-term-support) |
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releases are maintained for approximately 2 years. |
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For Consul Enterprise customers, |
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consistently operating a maintained version requires a major upgrade every 12 months |
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For more details, refer to |
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[Long Term Support upgrade recommendation](/consul/docs/enterprise/long-term-support#annual-upgrade-to-next-lts-release). |
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## Large Version Jumps |
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If your Consul deployment is many major versions behind the latest release |
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