Hey Meteor developers,
We’d like to clarify the current support status of the various Meteor versions and share what to expect moving forward. This has been long overdue, and we appreciate everyone’s patience as we’ve worked through major changes like the release of Meteor 3.
Here’s the official breakdown:
Meteor 1.x – End-of-Life (EOL)
Meteor 1.x is no longer supported and is not receiving updates or security patches. We strongly encourage any remaining users to migrate to newer versions.
Meteor 2.x – Maintenance Mode starting July 2025
Meteor 2.x will enter Maintenance Mode in July 2025. From that point on, it will only receive critical security updates and no new features.
We will completely reach End-of-Life in December 2025
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Meteor 3.x – Active Support
Meteor 3 is our current officially supported version, with full ongoing development, improvements, and feature additions. This version includes significant architectural enhancements, including support for ESM and SWC.
We highly recommend upgrading to Meteor 3 as soon as possible to take advantage of modern features and maintain access to important updates.
If you have any questions or need help with your migration path, don’t hesitate to post here or reach out on GitHub.
Thanks for being part of the Meteor community!
– The Meteor Core Team
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Hi italojs,
Thanks for the clear breakdown and timeline; this helps to set expectations around support and upgrades. It’s good to see the roadmap for Meteor 2.x and the encouragement to move toward Meteor 3.x, especially with the new architectural improvements. Looking forward to seeing how the community adapts during this transition.
I want to clarify that Galaxy will continue to provide support for running all Meteor versions, with no plans to discontinue support for any version.
Meteor 1.x – Active hosting support
Meteor 2.x – Active hosting support
Meteor 3.x – Active hosting support
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Thanks for the clarification, @fredmaiaarantes. It’s helpful to know that Galaxy will continue hosting all versions, even as Meteor’s core support shifts. That distinction between platform support and framework updates is important for planning deployments and migrations.
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How would that hosting work without security updates for for example v1? Are there custom security updates on galaxy?
In this case hosting support I would say means that you will be able to deploy the application to Galaxy, not that they will fix security issues for you.
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Hey @lucfranken, we don’t have custom security updates on Galaxy. We have done it for Meteor 2.13 and Node 14 last year (Extended Support Maintenance for Node.js | Meteor Guide). However, security fixes became non-portable over time, and the period we committed to that has expired.
We recommend that everyone migrate to Meteor 3. But we will continue to run all Meteor apps on Galaxy, regardless of their version.
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