Announcing Istio 1.11.5

Istio 1.11.5 patch release.

Dec 2, 2021

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.11.4 and Istio 1.11.5

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Changes

Fixed istiod deployment respect values.pilot.nodeSelector. (Issue #36110)
Fixed the in-cluster operator can’t prune resources when the Istio control plane have active proxies connected. (Issue #35657)
Fixed the release tar URL by adding the patch version.
Fixed LbEndpointValidationError.LoadBalancingWeight: value must be greater than or equal to 1 from Envoy when multi-network gateways are configured via MeshNetworks.
Fixed workload name metric labels are not correctly populated for CronJob at k8s 1.21+. (Issue #35563)