ouncements for all of Istio's major releases and patch releases.">Release Announcements</a></li><li><a href=/v1.7/news/releases/0.x/ title="Announcements for the early releases of Istio.">0.x Releases</a></li><li>0.5</li></ol></nav><article aria-labelledby=title><div class=title-area><div style=width:100%><h1 id=title>Announcing Istio 0.5</h1><p class=subtitle>Major Update</p><p class=byline><span><svg class="icon"><use xlink:href="/v1.7/img/icons.svg#calendar"/></svg><span>&nbsp;</span>February 2, 2018</sp