Announcing Istio 1.8.1

Patch Release

 December 8, 2020

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.8.0 and Istio 1.8.1

BEFORE YOU UPGRADE

Things to know and prepare before upgrading.

DOWNLOAD

Download and install this release.

DOCS

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SOURCE CHANGES

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Changes

  • Fixed an issue showing unnecessary warnings when downgrading to a lower version of Istio. (Issue #29183)

  • Fixed an issue where a delegate VirtualService change would not trigger an xDS push. (Issue #29123)

  • Fixed a regression in Istio 1.8.0 causing workloads with multiple Services with overlapping ports to send traffic to the wrong port. (Issue #29199)

  • Fixed a bug causing Istio to attempt to validate resource types it no longer supports.

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