| Release Date | 2023-12-15 | 2023-08-17 (1.5.0) |
| End of Community Support | 1.7.0 release (2024-04-15, TBD) | 1.6.0 release (2023-12-15) |
| Enterprise Support | offered by Sidero Labs Inc. | offered by Sidero Labs Inc. |
| Kubernetes | 1.29, 1.28, 1.27, 1.26, 1.25, 1.24 | 1.28, 1.27, 1.26 |
| Architecture | amd64, arm64 | amd64, arm64 |
| Platforms | | |
| - cloud | AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, Exoscale, Hetzner, OpenStack, Oracle Cloud, Scaleway, Vultr, Upcloud | AWS, GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean, Exoscale, Hetzner, OpenStack, Oracle Cloud, Scaleway, Vultr, Upcloud |
| - bare metal | x86: BIOS, UEFI, SecureBoot; arm64: UEFI, SecureBoot; boot: ISO, PXE, disk image | x86: BIOS, UEFI; arm64: UEFI; boot: ISO, PXE, disk image |
| - virtualized | VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Proxmox, Xen | VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Proxmox, Xen |
| - SBCs | Banana Pi M64, Jetson Nano, Libre Computer Board ALL-H3-CC, Nano Pi R4S, Pine64, Pine64 Rock64, Radxa ROCK Pi 4c, Raspberry Pi 4B, Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 | Banana Pi M64, Jetson Nano, Libre Computer Board ALL-H3-CC, Nano Pi R4S, Pine64, Pine64 Rock64, Radxa ROCK Pi 4c, Raspberry Pi 4B, Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 |
| - local | Docker, QEMU | Docker, QEMU |
| Cluster API | | |
| CAPI Bootstrap Provider Talos | >= 0.6.3 | >= 0.6.1 |
| CAPI Control Plane Provider Talos | >= 0.5.4 | >= 0.5.2 |
| Sidero | >= 0.6.2 | >= 0.6.0 |