Announcing Istio 1.26.6

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.26.5 and Istio 1.26.6.

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Security Update

This release implements the security updates described in our 20th of October post, ISTIO-SECURITY-2025-002.

Changes

There are no other changes introduced in this release outside of the above mentioned security updates.