Announcing Istio 1.13.8

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.13.7 and Istio 1.13.8.

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Changes

• Fixed an issue where Istio did not update the list of endpoints in STRICT_DNS clusters during workload instance updates. (Issue #39505)

• Fixed an issue where a service, with and without Virtual Service timeouts specified, is incorrectly setting the timeouts. (Issue #40299)

• Fixed an issue where istiod starts up very slowly when connectivity to GCP metadata service is only partially broken. (Issue #40601)

• Fixed an issue causing TLS ServiceEntries to sometimes not work when created after TCP ones.

• Fixed an issue where istioctl analyze started showing invalid warning messages.

• Fixed potential memory leak when updating hostname of service entries.