Announcing Istio 1.0.1

Istio 1.0.1 patch release.

Aug 29, 2018

We’re pleased to announce the availability of Istio 1.0.1. Please see below for what’s changed.

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Networking

Improved Pilot scalability and Envoy startup time.
Fixed virtual service host mismatch issue when adding a port.
Added limited support for merging multiple virtual service or destination rule definitions for the same host.
Allow outlier consecutive gateway failures when using HTTP.

Made it possible to use Pilot standalone, for those users who want to only leverage Istio’s traffic management functionality.
Introduced the convenient values-istio-gateway.yaml configuration that enables users to run standalone gateways.
Fixed a variety of Helm installation issues, including an issue with the istio-sidecar-injector configmap not being found.
Fixed the Istio installation error with Galley not being ready.
Fixed a variety of issues around mesh expansion.

Added an experimental metrics expiration configuration to the Mixer Prometheus adapter.
Updated Grafana to 5.2.2.