Release Note 1.3.6 Draft

This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.3.5 and Istio 1.3.6.

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Installation

Traffic Management

• Fixed some example Envoy bug. (Issue 17748)

Security

Telemetry

• Improved load-shedding options for Mixer. Support for a requests-per-second threshold for load-shedding enforcement was added, to allow operators to turn off load-shedding for Mixer in low traffic scenarios.
• Fixed an issue with destination_service label in HTTP related metrics incorrectly falling back to request.host which can cause metric cardinality explosion for ingress traffic. (Issue 18818).

Policy

• Improved load-shedding options for Mixer. Support for a requests-per-second threshold for load-shedding enforcement was added, to allow operators to turn off load-shedding for Mixer in low traffic scenarios.

Configuration Management

istioctl

Installation & Upgrades

Other