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

Security

Telemetry

• Added priorityClass for telemetry pod spec.
• Added annotation for datadog tracing that controls extra features in sidecars.

Policy

Configuration Management

istioctl

• Removed time diff info in proxy-status command.

Installation & Upgrades

Other

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with handling invalid UTF-8 characters in the Stackdriver logging adapter (Issue 16966).
• Fixed an Envoy crash introduced in Istio 1.2.4 (Issue 16357).