Announcing Istio 1.9.7

This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.9.6 and Istio 1.9.7.

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Changes

• Added validator for empty regex match. (Issue 34065)

• Fixed EndpointSlice races leading to error state. (Issue 33672)

• Fixed EndpointSlice creating duplicate IPs on service update.