Support for Istio 1.23 ends on April 16, 2025

According to Istio's support policy, minor releases like 1.23 are supported until six weeks after the N+2 minor release (1.25 in this case). Istio 1.25 was released on March 3rd, 2025, and support for 1.23 will end on April 16th, 2025.

At that point we will stop back-porting fixes for security issues and critical bugs to 1.23, so we encourage you to upgrade to the latest version of Istio ({{<istio_release_name>}}). If you don't do this you may put yourself in the position of having to do a major upgrade on a short timeframe to pick up a critical fix.

We care about you and your clusters, so please be kind to yourself and upgrade.