Announcing Istio 1.13.3

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness and some additional configuration support. This release note describes what's different between Istio 1.13.2 and 1.13.3.

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Changes

• Added support for skipping the initial installation of CNI entirely.

• Added values to the istiod Helm charts for configuring affinity rules and toleration on the Deployment. This can be used for better placement of istiod instances.

• Fixed an issue where platform detection took 5 seconds on Minikube. (Issue #37832)

• Fixed an issue where removing a HTTP filter did not work properly.

• Fixed an issue causing some cross-namespace VirtualService to be incorrectly ignored after upgrading to Istio 1.12+. (Issue #37691)