Announcing Istio 1.7.8

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.7.7 and Istio 1.7.8

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Changes

• Fixed an issue where dashboard controlz would not port forward to istiod pod. (Issue #30208)
• Fixed an issue where namespace isn’t resolved correctly in VirtualService delegation’s short destination host. (Issue #30387)
• Fixed an issue causing HTTP headers to be duplicated when using Istio probe rewrite. (Issue #28466)