ssues/18152>Issue #18152</a>)</p></li><li><p><strong>Promoted</strong> <code>WorkloadGroup</code> to v1beta1.
(<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/25652>Issue #25652</a>)</p></li><li><p><strong>Improved</strong> istio-agent health probe rewrite to not re-use connections, mirroring Kubernetes&rsquo; probing behavior.
(<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/36390>Issue #36390</a>)</p></li><li><p><strong>Improved</strong> the default <code>PILOT_MAX_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND</code>, which limits the