Announcing Istio 1.10.5

Istio 1.10.5 patch release.

Oct 7, 2021

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.10.4 and Istio 1.10.5.

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Changes

Improved istioctl install to give more details when encountering installation failures.
Added values to the Istio Gateway Helm charts for configuring ServiceAccount annotations. Can be used to enable IAM Roles for Service Accounts on AWS EKS. (Issue #34837)
Fixed an issue causing istioctl profile diff and istioctl profile dump to output unexpected info logs.
Fixed an issue causing istioctl analyze to show an unexpected IST0132 message when analyzing the gateway associated with a virtual service. (Issue #34653)
Fixed an issue causing the deployment analyzer to ignore service namespaces during the analysis process.
Fixed an issue resulting in DestinationRule updates not triggering updates for AUTO_PASSTHROUGH listeners on gateways. (Issue #34944)
Fixed an issue causing memory to not be freed after XDS clients disconnect.