Containerd LTS(long term support)

The current state is available in the following tables:

Release	Status	Start	End of Life
0.0	End of Life	Dec 4, 2015	-
0.1	End of Life	Mar 21, 2016	-
0.2	End of Life	Apr 21, 2016	December 5, 2017
1.0	End of Life	December 5, 2017	December 5, 2018
1.1	End of Life	April 23, 2018	October 23, 2019
1.2	End of Life	October 24, 2018	October 15, 2020
1.3	End of Life	September 26, 2019	March 4, 2021
1.4	End of Life	August 17, 2020	March 3, 2022
1.5	End of Life	May 3, 2021	February 28, 2023
1.6	LTS	February 15, 2022	next LTS + 6 months
1.7	Active	March 10, 2023	active(May 5, 2025), extended(EOL of 1.6)
2.0	Active	November 5, 2024	max(November 5, 2025 or release of 2.1 + 6 months)
2.1	Next	TBD	TBD

https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/main/RELEASES.md

Kubernetes Support

The Kubernetes version matrix represents the versions of containerd which are recommended for a Kubernetes release. Any actively supported version of containerd may receive patches to fix bugs encountered in any version of Kubernetes, however, our recommendation is based on which versions have been the most thoroughly tested. See the Kubernetes test grid for the list of actively tested versions. Kubernetes only supports n-3 minor release versions and containerd will ensure there is always a supported version of containerd for every supported version of Kubernetes.

Kubernetes Version	containerd Version	CRI Version
1.20	1.5.0+	v1alpha2
1.21	1.5.0+	v1alpha2
1.22	1.5.5+	v1alpha2
1.23	1.6.0+, 1,5.8+	v1, v1alpha2
1.24	1.6.4+, 1.5.11+	v1, v1alpha2
1.25	1.6.4+, 1.5.11+	v1, v1alpha2
1.26	1.6.4+, 1.5.11+	v1

Deprecated containerd and kubernetes versions

CRI-Containerd Version	Containerd Version	Kubernetes Version	CRI Version
v1.0.0-alpha.x		1.7, 1.8	v1alpha1
v1.0.0-beta.x		1.9	v1alpha1
End-Of-Life	v1.1 (End-Of-Life)	1.10~1.25	v1alpha2
	v1.2 (End-Of-Life)	1.10~1.25	v1alpha2
	v1.3 (End-Of-Life)	1.12~1.25	v1alpha2
	v1.4 (End-of-Life)	1.19~1.25	v1alpha2

Docker Release
Containerd Release