Announcing Istio 1.6.9

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.6.8 and Istio 1.6.9.

Changes

• Added istioctl analyzer to detect when Destination Rules do not specify caCertificates (Istio #25652)
• Added missing telemetry.loadshedding.* options to mixer container arguments
• Fixed HTTP match request without headers conflict
• Fixed Istio operator to watch multiple namespaces (Istio #26317)
• Fixed EDS cache when an endpoint appears after its service resource (Istio #26983)
• Fixed istioctl remove-from-mesh not removing init containers on CNI installations.
• Fixed istioctl add-to-mesh and remove-from-mesh commands from affecting OwnerReferences (Istio #26720)
• Fixed cleaning up of service information when the cluster secret is deleted
• Fixed egress gateway ports binding to 80/443 due to user permissions
• Fixed gateway listeners created with traffic direction outbound to be drained properly on exit
• Fixed headless services not updating listeners (Istio #26617)
• Fixed inaccurate endpointsPendingPodUpdate metric
• Fixed ingress SDS from not getting secret update (Istio #18912)
• Fixed ledger capacity size
• Fixed operator to update service monitor due to invalid permissions (Istio #26961)
• Fixed regression in gateway name resolution (Istio 26264)
• Fixed rotated certificates not being stored to /etc/istio-certs VolumeMount (Istio #26821)
• Fixed trust domain validation in transport socket level (Istio #26435)
• Improved specifying network for a cluster without meshNetworks also being configured
• Improved the cache readiness state with TTL (Istio #26418)
• Updated SDS timeout to fetch workload certificates to 0s
• Updated app_containers to use comma separated values for container specification
• Updated default protocol sniffing timeout to 5s (Istio #24379)