Stability and Support

This page lists the status, timeline and policy for currently supported ESO releases and its providers. Please also see our deprecation policy that describes API versioning, deprecation and API surface.

Supported Versions

We want to provide security patches and critical bug fixes in a timely manner to our users. To do so, we offer long-term support for our latest two (N, N-1) software releases. We aim for a 2-3 month minor release cycle, i.e. a given release is supported for about 4-6 months.

We want to cover the following cases:

regular image rebuilds to update OS dependencies
regular go dependency updates
backport bug fixes on demand

ESO Version	Kubernetes Version	Release Date	End of Life
0.10.x	1.19 → 1.31	Aug 3, 2024	Release of 0.12
0.9.x	1.19 → 1.30	Jun 22, 2023	Release of 0.11
0.8.x	1.19 → 1.28	Mar 16, 2023	Aug 3, 2024
0.7.x	1.19 → 1.26	Dec 11, 2022	Jun 22, 2023
0.6.x	1.19 → 1.24	Oct 9, 2022	Mar 16, 2023
0.5.x	1.19 → 1.24	Apr 6, 2022	Dec 11, 2022
0.4.x	1.16 → 1.24	Feb 2, 2022	Oct 9, 2022
0.3.x	1.16 → 1.24	Jul 25, 2021	Apr 6, 2022

Provider Stability and Support Level

The following table describes the stability level of each provider and who's responsible.

Provider	Stability	Maintainer
AWS Secrets Manager	stable	external-secrets
AWS Parameter Store	stable	external-secrets
Hashicorp Vault	stable	external-secrets
GCP Secret Manager	stable	external-secrets
Azure Keyvault	stable	external-secrets
IBM Cloud Secrets Manager	stable	@knelasevero @sebagomez @ricardoptcosta @IdanAdar
Kubernetes	beta	external-secrets
Yandex Lockbox	alpha	@AndreyZamyslov @knelasevero
GitLab Variables	alpha	@Jabray5
Alibaba Cloud KMS	alpha	@ElsaChelala
Oracle Vault	alpha	@KianTigger @EladGabay
Akeyless	stable	external-secrets
1Password	alpha	@SimSpaceCorp @snarlysodboxer
Generic Webhook	alpha	@willemm
senhasegura DevOps Secrets Management (DSM)	alpha	@lfraga
Doppler SecretOps Platform	alpha	@ryan-blunden @nmanoogian
Keeper Security	alpha	@ppodevlab
Scaleway	alpha	@azert9
Conjur	stable	@davidh-cyberark @szh
Delinea	alpha	@michaelsauter
Beyondtrust	alpha	@btfhernandez
SecretServer	alpha	@billhamilton
Pulumi ESC	alpha	@dirien
Passbolt	alpha
Infisical	alpha	@akhilmhdh
Device42	alpha
Bitwarden Secrets Manager	alpha	@skarlso
Previder	stable	@previder

Provider Feature Support

The following table show the support for features across different providers.

Provider	find by name	find by tags	metadataPolicy Fetch	referent authentication	store validation	push secret	DeletionPolicy Merge/Delete
AWS Secrets Manager	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
AWS Parameter Store	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Hashicorp Vault	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
GCP Secret Manager	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Azure Keyvault	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Kubernetes	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
IBM Cloud Secrets Manager	x		x		x
Yandex Lockbox					x
GitLab Variables	x	x			x
Alibaba Cloud KMS					x
Oracle Vault					x
Akeyless	x	x		x	x	x	x
1Password	x				x	x	x
Generic Webhook							x
senhasegura DSM					x
Doppler	x				x
Keeper Security	x				x	x
Scaleway	x	x			x	x	x
Conjur	x	x			x
Delinea	x				x
Beyondtrust	x				x
SecretServer	x				x
Pulumi ESC	x				x
Passbolt	x				x
Infisical	x			x	x
Device42					x
Bitwarden Secrets Manager	x				x	x	x
Previder	x				x

Support Policy

We provide technical support and security / bug fixes for the above listed versions.

Technical support

We provide assistance for deploying/upgrading etc. on a best-effort basis. You can request support through the following channels:

Even though we have active maintainers and people assigned to this project, we kindly ask for patience when asking for support. We will try to get to priority issues as fast as possible, but there may be some delays.