Upcoming Teleport Releases

The teleport team delivers a new major release roughly every 3 months.

Teleport Cloud "Austin"

The cloud team focuses on security hardening and single-region production release.

Version	Date	Description
Security Audit	Jan 10th, 2021	An external security team starts security audit.
Release	March 1st, 2021	A single region deployment with 99.9% uptime monthly SLA (max 45 minutes of downtime per month). Good to go for production.

The team open sources role based access controls, implements Database Access, Session Termination and Access Workflows UI.

You can find the full list of fixes and features in the Github milestone.

Feature	Editions	Description
Database Access	All	SSO into PostgreSQL or MySQL. Use AWS Aurora RDS or on-premises. Read more here.
OSS RBAC	OSS	Open source role based access controls. Check out the design doc and issue 4136.
Terraform Provider	All	Configure Teleport without UI using Terraform provider. More details here.
Dual Authorization Workflows	Enterprise, Cloud	Request multiple users to review and approve access requests. Find out more in issue 5007.
U2F for Kubernetes and SSH sessions	All	Adds an option to authorize with 2nd factor when connecting to a node/k8s cluster. Details in issue 3828.
Access Workflows UI	Enterprise, Cloud	Review access requests and assume roles in the UI. Some mockups are in issue 4937.
Client libraries and API	All	Use Go to create access workflows. Review the design doc and issue 4763.

Teleport follows semantic versioning for pre-releases and releases.

Pre-releases

Pre-releases have suffixes -alpha, -beta and -rc. They are not ready for production:

You can use alpha releases such as 5.0.1-alpha.1 for trying new features. Things can break and new changes may not be backwards-compatible.
Teleport beta releases, such as 5.0.1-beta.2 are suitable for staging environments. We are unlikely to change the APIs while we are ironing out bugs and UX glitches.
We mark release candidates as 5.0.1-rc.1 coding and bug fixes are finished. The team is going through the manual test plan to find any regressions.

Releases

Releases are ready for production use.

Releases 5.0.0 and 6.0.0 are major releases. We publish 4 major releases each year. Read more about upgrades and compatibility here.
Releases 5.1.0 are minor releases. They contain minor backwards-compatible improvements and backports.
Versions like 5.0.1 are quick patches. They contain backwards-compatible fixes.