Announcing Istio 1.20.8

Istio 1.20.8 patch release.

Jul 1, 2024

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Changes

Added gateways.securityContext to manifests to provide an option to customize the gateway securityContext. (Issue #49549)
Fixed an issue where JWKS fetched from URIs were not updated promptly when there are errors fetching other URIs. (Issue #51636)
Fixed 503 errors returned by auto-passthrough gateways created after enabling mTLS.
Fixed serviceRegistry ordering of the proxy labels, so we put the Kubernetes registry in front. (Issue #50968)