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+VOLTHA Releases
+===============
+
+VOLTHA, up until the 2.8 release had a tight development and release schedule of 3 months.
+Starting June 2021 operates on a 6 months release schedule, with a Long Term Support release every 18 months.
+Long Term Support means that throughout the lifetime of a release there is a commitment to update,
+patch and maintain the software.
+
+VOLTHA process for releases is as follows:
+
+- each LTS release has an 18 months support period with bug fixes and testing.
+- LTS releases are 18 months apart.
+- VOLTHA has 6 month release cycles.
+- Two interim releases between LTS versions.
+- Bugfixes will be back ported to LTS (if applicable) from master and interim release.
+
+Releases
+--------
+
+.. list-table:: VOLTHA Releases
+ :widths: 25 25 25 30
+ :header-rows: 1
+
+ * - Release
+ - Release Date
+ - End of Support date
+ - Notes
+ * - VOLTHA v1.0.0
+ - Sep 12, 2017
+ - Oct 6, 2017
+ -
+ * - VOLTHA v1.1.0
+ - Oct 6, 2017
+ - Nov 16, 2017
+ -
+ * - VOLTHA v1.1.1
+ - Nov 16, 2017
+ - Dec 21, 2017
+ -
+ * - VOLTHA v1.2.0
+ - Dec 21, 2017
+ - March 16, 2018
+ -
+ * - VOLTHA v1.2.1
+ - March 16, 2018
+ - April 30, 2018
+ -
+ * - VOLTHA v1.3
+ - April 30, 2018
+ - July 22, 2018
+ -
+ * - VOLTHA v1.4
+ - July 22, 2018
+ - October 02, 2018
+ -
+ * - VOLTHA v1.5
+ - October 02, 2018
+ - May 21, 2019
+ -
+ * - VOLTHA v2.0
+ - May 21, 2019
+ - July 30, 2019
+ -
+ * - VOLTHA v2.1
+ - July 30, 2019
+ - December 22, 2019
+ -
+ * - `VOLTHA v2.2 <../release_notes/voltha_2.2.rst>`_
+ - December 12, 2019
+ - March 24, 2020
+ -
+ * - `VOLTHA v2.3 <../release_notes/voltha_2.3.rst>`_
+ - March 24, 2020
+ - July 29, 2020
+ -
+ * - `VOLTHA v2.4 <../release_notes/voltha_2.4.rst>`_
+ - July 29, 2020
+ - September 30, 2020
+ -
+ * - `VOLTHA v2.5 <../release_notes/voltha_2.5.rst>`_
+ - September 30, 2020
+ - December 18, 2020
+ -
+ * - `VOLTHA v2.6 <../release_notes/voltha_2.6.rst>`_
+ - December 18, 2020
+ - March 30, 2021
+ -
+ * - `VOLTHA v2.7 <../release_notes/voltha_2.7.rst>`_
+ - March 30, 2021
+ - July 11, 2021
+ -
+ * - `VOLTHA 2.8 <../release_notes/voltha_2.8.rst>`_
+ - July 11, 2021
+ - December 30, 2022
+ - Long Term Support Release
+
+