Distroless currently tracks Debian on their standard support timeline.
The current estimation of end of life for images with the pattern:
gcr.io/distroless/<image>-debian<version>:(latest|nonroot|debug|debug-nonroot)
| Image | Debian 12 EOL |
|---|---|
| static | debian 13 release day + 1yr |
| base | debian 13 release day + 1yr |
| base-nossl | debian 13 release day + 1yr |
| cc | debian 13 release day + 1yr |
| java* | debian 13 release day + 3mo |
| node* | debian 13 release day + 3mo |
| python* | debian 13 release day + 3mo |
* see below for language specific runtime notes
Java will only support current LTS version distributed by debian see here.
Node version support is for even numbered releases (18, 20, 22, etc) that are current, active or in LTS maintenance. For more information, see here.
A list of supported image tags is available here: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless#what-images-are-available