Release Note 1.3.1 Draft

This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.3.0 and Istio 1.3.1.

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Installation

• Fixed secret cleanup job erroneously running during upgrades (Issue 16873).

Traffic Management

• Fixed an issue where the default configuration disabled Kubernetes Ingress support (Issue 17148)

Security

• Fixed a regression affecting support of RS384 and RS512 algorithms in JWTs (Issue 15380).

Telemetry

• Added priorityClass for telemetry pod spec.
• Added annotation for datadog tracing that controls extra features in sidecars.
• Fixed an issue with handling invalid UTF-8 characters in the Stackdriver logging adapter (Issue 16966).
• Fixed an issue with destination service label in HTTP metrics not gettting set for BlackHoleCluster and PassThroughCluster (Issue 16629).
• Added a new metric to report Pilot xDS push time.
• Fixed an issue with destination_service label in istio_tcp_connections_closed_total and istio_tcp_connections_opened_total metric not set correctly (Issue 17234).

Policy

Configuration Management

istioctl

• Removed time diff info in proxy-status command.
• Added experimental command for multi-resource validation istioctl experimental analyze

Installation & Upgrades

Other

• Fixed an Envoy crash introduced in Istio 1.2.4 (Issue 16357).
• Fixed Istio CNI sidecar initialization when IPv6 is disabled on the node (Issue 15895).