1.6.12

We are pleased to release Cilium v1.6.12. This release updates Envoy to 1.14.5, to mitigate CVE-2020-25017.

Summary of Changes

Minor Changes:

• Add hidden --k8s-sync-timeout to set the timeout for initial Kubernetes synchronization (Backport PR #12823, Upstream PR #12822, @joestringer)
• envoy: Require Node only on the first request of a stream (Backport PR #13334, Upstream PR #12522, @jrajahalme)
• Istio integration has been updated to Istio release 1.5.9. (Backport PR #12888, Upstream PR #12861, @jrajahalme)
• k8s: update k8s dependencies to 1.16.15 (#12667, @aanm)

Bugfixes:

• Envoy is updated to release 1.14.5 (Backport PR #13334, Upstream PR #13332, @jrajahalme)
• node-init restartPods should use docker if /etc/crictl.yaml not found (Backport PR #13054, Upstream PR #12894, @UnwashedMeme)

Misc Changes:

• Add Kubernetes compatibility documentation (Backport PR #12799, Upstream PR #12783, @aanm)
• contrib: Add release helper scripts for preparing micro releases (Backport PR #13250, Upstream PR #13044, @joestringer)
• doc: update #ebpf Slack channel name (Backport PR #12799, Upstream PR #12766, @qmonnet)
• docs/metrics: Correct label typos in metrics.rst (Backport PR #13054, Upstream PR #12901, @sayboras)
• docs: limit copybutton to content area only (Backport PR #13054, Upstream PR #12997, @genbit)
• Upgrade Cilium docs theme version (Backport PR #13054, Upstream PR #12996, @Neelajacques)
• 1.6 special ci-fixing backport (#13111, @nebril)