Announcing Istio 1.1.16

We're pleased to announce the availability of Istio 1.1.16. Please see below for what's changed.

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Security update

This release contains fixes for the security vulnerability described in our October 8th, 2019 news post. Specifically:

ISTIO-SECURITY-2019-005: A DoS vulnerability has been discovered by the Envoy community.

• CVE-2019-15226: After investigation, the Istio team has found that this issue could be leveraged for a DoS attack in Istio if an attacker uses a high quantity of very small headers.

Nothing else is included in this release except for the above security fix.