Announcing Istio 1.13.3

Istio 1.13.3 patch release.

Apr 18, 2022

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness and some additional configuration support. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.13.2 and 1.13.3.

BEFORE YOU UPGRADE

Things to know and prepare before upgrading.

DOWNLOAD

Download and install this release.

DOCS

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SOURCE CHANGES

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Changes

Added support for skipping the initial installation of CNI entirely.
Added values to the istiod Helm charts for configuring affinity rules and toleration on the Deployment. This can be used for better placement of istiod instances.
Fixed an issue where platform detection took 5 seconds on Minikube. (Issue #37832)
Fixed an issue where removing a HTTP filter did not work properly.
Fixed an issue causing some cross-namespace VirtualService to be incorrectly ignored after upgrading to Istio 1.12+. (Issue #37691)