Announcing Istio 1.3.1

This release includes bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.3.0 and Istio 1.3.1.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue which caused the secret cleanup job to erroneously run during upgrades (Issue 16873).
• Fixed an issue where the default configuration disabled Kubernetes Ingress support (Issue 17148)
• Fixed an issue with handling invalid UTF-8 characters in the Stackdriver logging adapter (Issue 16966).
• Fixed an issue which caused the destination_service label in HTTP metrics not to be set for BlackHoleCluster and PassThroughCluster (Issue 16629).
• Fixed an issue with the destination_service label in the istio_tcp_connections_closed_total and istio_tcp_connections_opened_total metrics which caused them to not be set correctly (Issue 17234).
• Fixed an Envoy crash introduced in Istio 1.2.4 (Issue 16357).
• Fixed Istio CNI sidecar initialization when IPv6 is disabled on the node (Issue 15895).
• Fixed a regression affecting support of RS384 and RS512 algorithms in JWTs (Issue 15380).

Minor enhancements

• Added support for .Values.global.priorityClassName to the telemetry deployment.
• Added annotations for Datadog tracing that controls extra features in sidecars.
• Added the pilot_xds_push_time metric to report Pilot xDS push time.
• Added istioctl experimental analyze to support multi-resource analysis and validation.
• Added support for running metadata exchange and stats extensions in a WebAssembly sandbox. Follow these instructions to try it out.
• Removed time diff info in the proxy-status command.