Announcing Istio 1.9.9

This is the final release of Istio 1.9. We urge you to upgrade to the latest Istio supported version, Istio ({{<istio_release_name>}}).

This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness. This release note describes what’s different between Istio 1.9.8 and Istio 1.9.9.

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Changes

• Fixed JWT unauthorized responses to now include a www-authenticate header, according to the RFC 6750 specification.
• Fixed Istiod memory leak after proxies have disconnected.
• Fixed DestinationRule updates not triggering an update for AUTO_PASSTHROUGH listeners on gateways.