Announcing Istio 1.26.2

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.26.1 and 1.26.2.

{{< relnote >}}

Changes

• Fixed incorrect UID and GID assignment for istio-proxy and istio-validation containers on OpenShift when TPROXY mode is enabled.

• Fixed an issue where changing a HTTPRoute object could cause istiod to crash. (Issue #56456)

• Fixed a race condition where status updates for Kubernetes objects could be missed by istiod. (Issue #56401)