Tekton Operator Releases

August 12, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Release Frequency

Tekton Operator follows the Tekton community release policy as follows:

  • Versions are numbered according to semantic versioning: vX.Y.Z
  • A new release is produced on a monthly basis
  • Four releases a year are chosen for long term support (LTS). All remaining releases are supported for approximately 1 month (until the next release is produced)
    • LTS releases take place in January, April, July and October every year
    • The first Tekton Operator LTS release will be v0.63.0 in November 2022

Tekton Operator produces nightly builds, publicly available on ghcr.io/tektoncd/operator.

More details are available in the Tekton Operator release documentation.

Release Process

Tekton Operator releases are made of YAML manifests and container images. Manifests are published to cloud object-storage as well as GitHub. Container images are signed by Sigstore via Tekton Chains; signatures can be verified through the public key hosted by the Tekton Chains project.

Further documentation available:

Older releases are EOL and available on [GitHub][tekton-pipeline-releases].

Release

v0.81 (LTS)

Minimum K8SPipelineRelease DateEnd of Life
1.28.xv1.14.x LTS2026-08-102027-08-10

v0.80 (LTS)

Minimum K8SPipelineRelease DateEnd of Life
1.28.xv1.12.x LTS2026-06-112027-06-11

v0.79 (LTS)

Minimum K8SPipelineRelease DateEnd of Life
1.28.xv1.9.x LTS2026-04-012027-04-01

v0.78 (LTS)

Minimum K8SPipelineRelease DateEnd of Life
1.28.xv1.6.x LTS2025-12-082026-12-08

v0.77 (LTS)

Minimum K8SPipelineRelease DateEnd of Life
1.28.xv1.3.1 LTS2025-08-212026-08-21

End of Life

VersionMinimum K8SPipelineRelease DateEnd of Life
v0.76.x LTS1.28.xv0.1.0.x LTS2025-05-272026-05-27
v0.75.x LTS1.28.xv0.65.x LTS2025-02-182026-02-18
v0.74.x LTS1.28.xv0.65.x2024-11-222025-11-22
v0.73.x1.28.xv0.62.x2024-10-012025-10-01
v0.71.x1.27.xv0.59.x2024-06-062025-06-06
v0.72.x1.28.xv0.61.x2024-07-112024-08-11
v0.70.x LTS1.25.xv0.56.x LTS2024-02-212025-02-21
v0.69.x LTS1.25.xv0.53.x LTS2023-12-282024-12-28
v0.68.x LTS1.24.xv0.50.x2023-09-222024-09-22
v0.67.x LTS1.24.xv0.47.x LTS2023-05-252024-05-25
v0.66.x1.24.xv0.45.x2023-03-202023-04-20
v0.65.x LTS1.23.xv0.44.x LTS2023-03-092024-03-09
v0.64.x1.23.xv0.42.x2023-01-042023-02-04
v0.63.x LTS1.23.xv0.41.x LTS2022-11-252023-11-25
v0.62.x1.22.xv0.40.x2022-09-202022-12-20
v0.61.x1.22.xv0.39.x2022-08-252022-11-25
v0.60.x1.21.xv0.37.x2022-06-282022-09-28
v0.59.x1.21.xv0.36.x2022-06-032022-09-03
v0.57.x1.21.xv0.35.x2022-04-292022-08-29
v0.56.x1.21.xv0.34.x2022-04-192022-08-19
v0.55.x1.21.xv0.33.x2022-03-142022-07-14
v0.54.x1.20.xv0.32.x2022-01-172022-05-17
v0.53.x1.20.xv0.31.x2021-12-092022-04-09
v0.52.x1.20.xv0.30.x2021-11-262022-03-26
v0.51.x1.19.xv0.29.x2021-11-032022-03-03
v0.50.x1.19.xv0.28.x2021-10-192022-02-19

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