18771>Issue #18771</a>),(<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/18838>Issue #18838</a>)</li></ul><h2 id=istioctl>istioctl</h2><ul><li><strong>Added</strong> Allow <a href=/v1.18/docs/reference/commands/istioctl/#istioctl-proxy-status><code>proxy-status &lt;pod></code> command</a> for non Kubernetes workloads with proxy config passed in from the <code>--file</code> parameter.</li><li><strong>Added</strong> a configuration file to hold istioctl default flags. Its default location (<code>$HOME/.istioctl