Announcing Istio 1.5.6

Istio 1.5.6 patch release.

Jun 17, 2020

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.5.5 and Istio 1.5.6.

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Security

Fixed Transfer-Encoding value case-sensitivity in Envoy (Envoy’s issue 10041)
Fixed handling of user defined ingress gateway configuration (Issue 23303)
Fixed Add TCP MX ALPN in UpstreamTlsContext for clusters that specify http2_protocol_options (Issue 23907)
Fixed election lock for namespace configmap controller.
Fixed istioctl validate -f for networking.istio.io/v1beta1 rules (Issue 24064)
Fixed aggregate clusters configuration (Issue 23909)
Fixed Prometheus mTLS poods scraping (Issue 22391)
Fixed ingress crash for overlapping hosts without match (Issue 22910)
Fixed Istio telemetry Pod crashes (Issue 23813)
Removed hard-coded operator namespace (Issue 24073)