Announcing Istio 1.17.1

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.17.0 and Istio 1.17.1.

This release includes security fixes included in Go 1.20.1 (released 2023-02-14) for the crypto/tls, mime/multipart, net/http, and path/filepath packages.

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Changes

• Added environment variables to support modifying gRPC keepalive values. Issue #42398

• Fixed an issue where ALL_METRICS does not disable metrics as expected. Issue #43178

• Fixed ignoring default CA certificate when PeerCertificateVerifier is created. PR #43337

• Fixed istiod not reconciling Kubernetes Gateway deployments and services when they are changed. Issue #43332

• Fixed reporting Programmed condition on Gateway API Gateway resources. Issue #43498

• Fixed an issue where updating service ExternalName does not take effect. Issue #43440