Announcing Istio 1.13.8

Istio 1.13.8 patch release.

Sep 12, 2022

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.13.7 and Istio 1.13.8.

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Changes

Fixed an issue where Istio did not update the list of endpoints in STRICT_DNS clusters during workload instance updates. (Issue #39505)
Fixed an issue where a service, with and without Virtual Service timeouts specified, is incorrectly setting the timeouts. (Issue #40299)
Fixed an issue where istiod starts up very slowly when connectivity to GCP metadata service is only partially broken. (Issue #40601)
Fixed an issue causing TLS ServiceEntries to sometimes not work when created after TCP ones.
Fixed an issue where istioctl analyze started showing invalid warning messages.
Fixed potential memory leak when updating hostname of service entries.