Announcing Istio 1.2.8

Istio 1.2.8 patch release.

Oct 23, 2019

We’re pleased to announce the availability of Istio 1.2.8. Please see below for what’s changed.

Things to know and prepare before upgrading.

Download and install this release.

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Inspect the full set of source code changes.

Bug fixes

Fix a bug introduced by our October 8th security release which incorrectly calculated HTTP header and body sizes (Issue 17735).
Fix a minor bug where endpoints still remained in /clusters while scaling a deployment to 0 replica (Issue 14336).
Fix Helm upgrade process to correctly update mesh policy for mutual TLS (Issue 16170).
Fix inconsistencies in the destination service label for TCP connection opened/closed metrics (Issue 17234).
Fix the Istio secret cleanup mechanism (Issue 17122).
Fix the Mixer Stackdriver adapter encoding process to handle invalid UTF-8 (Issue 16966).