trong>Improved</strong> VM security. VM identity is now bootstrapped from a short-lived Kubernetes service account token. And VM&rsquo;s workload certificate is automatically rotated.
(<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/24554>Issue #24554</a>)</li></ul><h2 id=telemetry>Telemetry</h2><ul><li><strong>Added</strong> Prometheus metrics to istio-agent.
(<a href=https://github.com/istio/istio/issues/22825>Issue #22825</a>)</li><li><strong>Added</strong> Metric customization with <code>istioctl</code>.
