Announcing Istio 1.6.1

Istio 1.6.1 patch release.

Jun 4, 2020

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.6.0 and Istio 1.6.1.

Changes

Bookinfo sample application security fixes

We’ve updated the versions of Node.js and jQuery used in the Bookinfo sample application. Node.js has been upgraded from version 12.9 to 12.18. jQuery has been updated from version 2.1.4 to version 3.5.0. The highest rated vulnerability fixed: HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header (Critical) (CVE-2019-15605)