Announcing Istio 1.17.1

Istio 1.17.1 patch release.

Feb 23, 2023

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.17.0 and Istio 1.17.1.

This release includes security fixes included in Go 1.20.1 (released 2023-02-14) for the crypto/tls, mime/multipart, net/http, and path/filepath packages.

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Changes

Added environment variables to support modifying gRPC keepalive values. Issue #42398
Fixed an issue where ALL_METRICS does not disable metrics as expected. Issue #43178
Fixed ignoring default CA certificate when PeerCertificateVerifier is created. PR #43337
Fixed istiod not reconciling Kubernetes Gateway deployments and services when they are changed. Issue #43332
Fixed reporting Programmed condition on Gateway API Gateway resources. Issue #43498
Fixed an issue where updating service ExternalName does not take effect. Issue #43440